Metellina longipalpis Marusik & Larsen 2018, comb. n.

Metellina longipalpis (Pavesi, 1883), comb. n. (fig. 34)

Meta longipalpis Pavesi, 1883: 19 (♂, ♀).

Note. The species was described based on a syntype series of 12 males and 68 females collected in two localities in Ethiopia. Although it was not illustrated, we believe that this species belongs to Metellina because Lessert (1938) indicated its similarity to M. merianae

(Scopoli, 1763) “Va riferita al gruppo della nostra M. merianae (Scop.) ”. Therefore, we transfer longipalpis from Meta to Metellina.

Published as part of Marusik, Yu. M. & Larsen, N., 2018, A Synopsis Of African Metellina (Aranei, Tetragnathidae, Metainae) With Description Of A New Species From South Africa, pp. 205-216 in Vestnik Zoologii (Vestn. Zool.) (Vestn. Zool.) 52 (3) on pages 209-210, DOI: 10.2478/vzoo-2018-0021, http://zenodo.org/record/64…