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Species Meriola arcifera

Brown spider - Meriola arcifera Brown spider - Meriola arcifera Long spider - Meriola arcifera Baby long spider? - Meriola arcifera voucher image - Meriola arcifera - male Small Spider from Damp Ground - Meriola arcifera - male Small Spider from Damp Ground - Meriola arcifera - male M. arcifera female - Meriola arcifera - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Trachelidae
Genus Meriola
Species arcifera (Meriola arcifera)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Current: Meriola arcifera (Simon, 1886)

Synonyms:
Trachelas arcifer Simon, 1886
Trachelas carvalhoi Mello-Leitão, 1943
Range
Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, USA (introduced to CA), Hawaii.(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the tracheline spiders (Araneae, Corinnidae) of southern South America
Norman Platnick & Curtis Ewing. 1995. American Museum Novitates 3128: 1-41.
2.The World Spider Catalog by Norman I. Platnick