Meta (spider)

Meta menardi

The genus Meta world include about 40 species, of which only three occur in Europe:

Some species of the genus of spiders autumn are classified today.

In Central Europe with meta menardi a 10 to 15 mm small and rare cave spider was found. It is located in abandoned animal and damp caves, on rocks, or in wells or gravel ( rarely numerous). Your orb is irregular and has up to 18 different radii. The diameter of the network is up to 30 cm. The dark gray, reddish to black eyed spider is two to three years old. The female hangs a pear-shaped egg sac in the vicinity of their network.

Meta bourneti is even rarer. They also inhabited caves, but is troglobiont and spends most of his time in caves. Adult animals are to be found in Western Europe and the UK in the spring, rare in Central Europe.