title: On the validity of the Japanese spider genus Metimorpha (Araneae, Araneidae).
abstract: The monotypic Japanese spider genus Metimorpha Strand, 1906 is known only from the juvenile holotype of M. tullia Bösenberg and Strand, 1906. The genus is not a tetragnathid as currently catalogued, nor a nephilid as tentatively suggested in the original description. Metimorpha is transferred to Araneidae, but the name is proposed as a nomen dubium.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi trg 2, PO Box 306, SI-1001 Ljublana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Matjaz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuntner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007564:Japan; D013045:Species Specificity; D013112:Spiders / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*