metaltelline

English

Noun

metaltelline (plural metaltellines)

1. (zoology) Any spider of the subfamily Metaltellinae.
   • 1999, Joel Cracraft, Francesca T. Grifo, The Living Planet in Crisis: Biodiversity Science and Policy, page 46:

     No one would claim that Chilean metaltellines are representative even of the Chilean biota in general, but consider the results of spider sampling in Bolivia (Coddington, personal communication; Colwell and Coddington 1994).