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{{Taxobox
| name = ''Meata''
| image =
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| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropoda]]
| classis = [[Arachnida]]
| ordo = [[Spider|Araneae]]
| familia = [[Salticidae]]
| genus = '''''Meata'''''
| genus_authority = Zabka, 1985
| diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Meata
| diversity = 2 species
| type_species = ''[[Meata typica]]''
| type_species_authority = Zabka, 1985
| range_map =
| range_map_width = 250px
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
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'''''Meata''''' is a [[spider]] [[genus (biology)|genus]] of the [[Salticidae]] family (jumping spiders) from [[China]] and [[Vietnam]].
Both species are only known from female specimens<ref>Platnick 2007</ref>.
''M. typica'' from Vietnam is four mm long. Its carapace is orange-brown, dark around the eyes and covered with numerous white hairs. The [[opisthosoma]] is light grey with dark patches on the sides and at the rear, the legs are yellow-orange.<ref name=murphy293>Murphy & Murphy 2000: 293</ref>
==Species==
* ''[[Meata fungiformis]]'' <small>Xiao & Yin, 1991</small> — China
* ''[[Meata typica]]'' <small>Zabka, 1985</small> — Vietnam
==Footnotes==
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==References==
* {{aut|Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John}} (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. ''Malaysian Nature Society'', Kuala Lumpur.
* {{aut|Platnick, Norman I.}} (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog], version 8.0. ''American Museum of Natural History''.
==External links==
* Salticidae.org: [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/meata/meata.htm Diagnostic drawings]
[[Category:Salticidae]]
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