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Meta menardi (European cave spider)

Synonyms: Aranea menardii (homotypic); Meta fusca

Wikipedia Abstract

The European cave spider, Meta menardi, is a long-jawed orb-weaving spider (Family Tetragnathidae) it is also known as the orbweaving cave spider, the cave orbweaver and simply the cave spider (in context).
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Prey / Diet

Cylindroiulus punctatus (Blunt-tailed Snake Millipede)[1]
Metellina merianae[1]
Nanogona polydesmoides[1]
Scoliopteryx libatrix (herald moth)[1]
Stenophylax permistus[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Pimpla rufipes (Black Slip Wasp)1

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1THE DIET OF THE CAVE SPIDER META MENARDI (LATREILLE 1804) (ARANEAE, TETRAGNATHIDAE), Peter Smithers, 2005. The Journal of Arachnology 33:243–246
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0