Meta
(Cave Orb-weavers)

Taxonomic Hierarchy

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Class: Arachnida
• Order: Araneae
• Suborder: Araneomorphae
• Family: Tetragnathidae
• Genus: Meta

Other Common Names

Cave Orb-weavers, Orb-weaving Cave Spiders

Author

Carl Ludwig Koch, 1836

Sightings Overview

There have been 8 confirmed sightings of Meta (Cave Orb-weavers), with the most recent sighting submitted on May 7, 2025 by Spider ID member cjshields. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 8 sightings because of certain Meta sightings reporting incomplete data.

• Web: 38% of the time, Meta spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 8)
• Sex: 1 female and 1 male.
• Environment: Meta has been sighted 7 times outdoors, and 3 times indoors.
• Outdoors: Man-made structure (2). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Cave (4).

Location and Range

Meta (Cave Orb-weavers) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, United States.

Meta has also been sighted in the following states: Arkansas, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Wisconsin.

Seasonality

Meta has been primarily sighted during the month of May.

• January:
• February:
• March:
• April: 1
• May: 3
• June:
• July: 1
• August: 1
• September:
• October: 1
• November: 1
• December: