Meraha is a genus of southeast Asian cellar spiders. The genus was erected in 2018 for two species transferred from Pholcus after a molecular phylogenetic study of Pholcidae.[1] The name is derived from the Malay "merah", meaning "red", referring to the reddish-orange hue of pedipalps.[2] They are average sized cellar spiders with a cylindrical abdomen, and they build domed webs .5 to 2 metres (1 ft 8 in to 6 ft 7 in) above the ground.[3][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pholcidae |
| Genus: | Meraha Huber, 2018[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pholcus krabi (Huber, 2016)
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Species
editAs of April 2022[update] it contains seven species:[1]
- M. chiangdao (Huber, 2011) – Thailand
- M. khene (Huber, 2011) – Laos, Vietnam
- M. kinabalu (Huber, 2011) – Malaysia (Borneo)
- M. kipungit (Huber, 2016) – Malaysia (Borneo)
- M. krabi (Huber, 2016) (type) – Thailand
- M. narathiwat (Huber, 2016) – Thailand
- M. shuye (Yao & Li, 2017) – Indonesia (Borneo)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Meraha Huber, 2018". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ a b Huber, B. A.; Eberle, J.; Dimitrov, D. (2018). "The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae)". ZooKeys (789): 51–101. doi:10.3897/zookeys.789.22781. PMC 6193417. PMID 30344435.
- ^ Huber, B. A.; Petcharad, B.; Leh Moi Ung, C.; et al. (2016). "The Southeast Asian Pholcus halabala species group (Araneae, Pholcidae): new data from field observations and ultrastructure". European Journal of Taxonomy (190): 1–55. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.190.
Further reading
edit- Dong, T. T.; Zheng, G.; Yao, Z. Y.; et al. (2017). "Ten new species of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Southeast Asia". Zootaxa. 4306 (3): 339–369. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4306.3.3.
- Huber, B. A. (2011). "Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae)". Bonner Zoologische Monographien. 58: 1–509.
