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]

Meraha
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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)
Species

7, see text

Species

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As of April 2022 it contains seven species:[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.

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