 Natura - nature |
| Mundus Plinius - physical world |
| Naturalia - natural bodies |
| Biota |
| Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925 - eukaryotes |
| Unikonta |
| Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| Holozoa |
| Kingdom Animalia C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| Epitheliozoa Ax, 1996 |
| Eumetazoa Bütschli, 1910 - eumetazoans |
| Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 - bilaterians |
| Eubilateria Ax, 1987 |
| Protostomia Grobben, 1908 |
| Ecdysozoa A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 - ecdysozoans |
| Superphylum Panarthropoda |
| Phylum Arthropoda Latreille, 1829 - arthropods |
| Euarthropoda |
| Subphylum Arachnomorpha Heider, 1913 |
| Infraphylum Cheliceriformes |
| Superclass Chelicerata |
| Epiclass Euchelicerata Weygoldt & Paulus, 1979 |
| Class Arachnida Cuvier, 1812 |
| Micrura Hansen & Sørensen, 1904 |
| Megoperculata Börner, 1902 |
| Pantetrapulmonata Shultz, 2007 |
| Tetrapulmonata Shultz, 1990 |
| Order Araneae C. Clerck, 1757 - spiders |
| Suborder Opisthothelae Pocock, 1892 - modern spiders |
| Infraorder Araneomorphae Smith, 1902 |
| Neocribellatae |
| Araneoclada |
| Entelegynae |
|
"canoe tapetum clade"
|
| Orbiculariae |
| Superfamily Araneoidea™
C. Clerck, 1757 |
|
"derived araneoids"
|
| Family Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866 - orb-weavers |
 Genus Meta™
C.L. Koch, 1836 |
 Meta abdomenalis Patel & Reddy, 1993 |
| Meta barreti Kulczyn'ski, 1899 |
| Meta baywanga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 |
| Meta birmanica Thorell, 1898 |
| Meta bourneti Simon, 1922 |
| Meta dolloff Levi, 1980 |
| Meta gertschi Lessert, 1938 |
| Meta japonica Tanikawa, 1993 |
| Meta longipalpis Pavesi, 1883 |
| Meta maculata (Blackwall, 1865) |
| Meta manchurica Marusik & Koponen, 1992 |
| Meta menardi™
(Latreille, 1804) |
| Meta merianopsis Tullgren, 1910 |
| Meta meruensis Tullgren, 1910 |
| Meta milleri Kratochvíl, 1942 |
| Meta minima Denis, 1953 |
| Meta mixta O. P.-Cambridge, 1885 |
| Meta monogrammata Butler, 1876 |
| Meta montana Hogg, 1919 |
| Meta nebulosa Schenkel, 1936 |
| Meta nigra Franganillo, 1920 |
| Meta nigridorsalis Tanikawa, 1994 |
| Meta obscura Kulczyn'ski, 1899 |
| Meta ovalis (Gertsch, 1933) |
| Meta qianshanensis Zhu & Zhu, 1983 |
| Meta reticuloides Yaginuma, 1958 |
| Meta rufolineata (Urquhart, 1889) |
| Meta serrana Franganillo, 1930 |
| Meta shenae Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 |
| Meta simlaensis Tikader, 1982 |
| Meta stridulans Wunderlich, 1987 |
| Meta tiniktirika Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 |
| Meta trivittata Keyserling, 1887 |
| Meta turbatrix Keyserling, 1887 |
| Meta vacillans Butler, 1876 |
| Meta villiersi Denis, 1955 |