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Genus 
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Female of 
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differs from all other theridiids by the conspicuous flattened black spines on the abdomen and/or legs. Therefore, they are often referred to as spiny theridiids. 
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males are significantly smaller than females. The male palp of 
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can be distinguished from other theridiids by the spoon-shaped conductor and embolus being thin and short, with the straight base, completely surrounded by the spoon-shaped conductor or the tip of embolus, which is opposite to the conductor (except 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="153">Meotipa bituberculata</emphasis>
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, see 
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: 419, figs 20-37). The species included in 
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are given below, with their distributions.
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The distributions of known 
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species in the world.
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Tikader" baseAuthorityYear="1977" class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Meotipa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meotipa andamanensis" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="andamanensis">
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(Tikader, 1977) (♀)
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Yaginuma" baseAuthorityYear="1952" class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Meotipa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meotipa argyrodiformis" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="argyrodiformis">
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(Yaginuma, 1952) (♂♀)
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Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 (♂♀)
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Li, Liu, Xu &amp; Yin, 2020 (♂♀)
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Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 (♂♀)
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Lin &amp; Li, 2021 (♂)
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Barrion-Dupo &amp; Barrion" baseAuthorityYear="2015" class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Meotipa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meotipa makiling" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="makiling">
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(Barrion-Dupo &amp; Barrion, 2015) (♀)
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Meotipa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meotipa menglun" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="menglun">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="153">Meotipa menglun</emphasis>
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Lin &amp; Li, 2021 (♂)
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Murthappa, Malamel, Prajapati, Sebastian &amp; Venkateshwarlu" authorityYear="2017" class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Meotipa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meotipa multuma" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="multuma">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="153">Meotipa multuma</emphasis>
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Murthappa, Malamel, Prajapati, Sebastian &amp; Venkateshwarlu, 2017 (♂♀)
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Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 (♀)
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1895" class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Meotipa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meotipa picturata" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="picturata">
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Simon, 1895 (♂♀)
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(
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, 1917) (♂♀)
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" rowspan="1">tropical Africa, introduced to the Americas, Papua New Guinea, China, Korea, Japan, and Pacific Islands</td>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Kulkarni, Vartak, Deshpande &amp; Halali" authorityYear="2017" class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Meotipa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meotipa sahyadri" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sahyadri">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="153">Meotipa sahyadri</emphasis>
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Kulkarni, Vartak, Deshpande &amp; Halali, 2017 (♂♀)
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="O. Pickard-Cambridge" baseAuthorityYear="1869" class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Meotipa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meotipa spiniventris" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="spiniventris">
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(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) (♂♀)
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" rowspan="1">Sri Lanka to Taiwan, China, Japan, introduced to the Netherlands</td>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="153">Meotipa thalerorum</emphasis>
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Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 (♂♀)
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Basumatary &amp; Brahma" authorityYear="2019" class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Meotipa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meotipa ultapani" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ultapani">
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Basumatary &amp; Brahma, 2019 (♀)
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" rowspan="1">India</td>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1895" class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Meotipa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meotipa vesiculosa" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vesiculosa">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="153">Meotipa vesiculosa</emphasis>
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Simon, 1895 (♂♀)
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" rowspan="1">China, Vietnam to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia</td>
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Meotipa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meotipa zhengguoi" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="153" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="zhengguoi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="153">Meotipa zhengguoi</emphasis>
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Lin &amp; Li, 2021 (♂)
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