''Meringa'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
Polynesia
Polynesia () "many" and νῆσος () "island"), to, Polinisia; mi, Porinihia; haw, Polenekia; fj, Polinisia; sm, Polenisia; rar, Porinetia; ty, Pōrīnetia; tvl, Polenisia; tkl, Polenihia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania, made up of ...
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araneomorph spiders in the family
Physoglenidae that was first described by
Raymond Robert Forster
Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand arachnologist and museum director. He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of New Zealand.
Biography
Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922, and was educa ...
in 1990.
Originally placed with the
Synotaxidae
''Synotaxus'' is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Synotaxidae that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895. Originally placed with the tangle web spiders, it was moved to the monotypic family Synotaxidae in 2017.
Descrip ...
, it was moved to the
Physoglenidae in 2017.
Species
it contains nine species, found on
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
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Meringa australis''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Meringa borealis''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Meringa centralis''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Meringa conway''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Meringa hinaka''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Meringa leith''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Meringa nelson''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Meringa otago''
Forster, 1990 (
type) – New Zealand
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Meringa tetragyna''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
See also
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List of Physoglenidae species
References
Araneomorphae genera
Physoglenidae
Spiders of New Zealand
Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster
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