Metellina gertschi ( Lessert, 1938 ) Marusik & Larsen, 2018

Marusik, Yu. M. & Larsen, N., 2018, A Synopsis Of African Metellina (Aranei, Tetragnathidae, Metainae) With Description Of A New Species From South Africa, Vestnik Zoologii (Vestn. Zool.) 52 (3), pp. 205-216 : 209

Metellina gertschi ( Lessert, 1938) , comb. n. ( fig. 34 )

Meta gertschi Lessert, 1938: 437 , f. 18–19 (♂).

Note. The species is known by the original description only ( WSC, 2017). It was described based on a single male from Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). Judging from the figure of the male palp given by Lessert (1938) the species does not belong to Meta , but most likely to Metellina and therefore is transferred to the latter genus.

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Fig.34.Typelocalities of speciesfrom Africaand adjacentislands nowconsidered inMetellinaor eitherdescribed or considered in Meta: 1 — Tetragnatha maculata; 2 — Metellina barreti; 3 — M. minima; 4 — M. villiersi; 5 — M. longipalpis; 6 — M. gertschi; 7 — “Meta” meruensis; 8 — Metellina merianopsis; 9 — M. haddadi sp. n., 10 — Tetragnatha vacillans.