Metleucauge

Metleucauge is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1980.[2]

Metleucauge
Metleucauge chikunii female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Tetragnathidae
Genus: Metleucauge
Levi, 1980[1]
Type species
M. eldorado
Levi, 1980
Species

8, see text

Species

As of October 2019 it contains eight species, found in Asia and the United States:[1]

  • Metleucauge chikunii Tanikawa, 1992China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
  • Metleucauge davidi (Schenkel, 1963) – China, Taiwan
  • Metleucauge dentipalpis (Kroneberg, 1875) – Central Asia
  • Metleucauge eldorado Levi, 1980 (type) – USA
  • Metleucauge kompirensis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
  • Metleucauge minuta Yin, 2012 – China
  • Metleucauge yaginumai Tanikawa, 1992 – Japan
  • Metleucauge yunohamensis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan

In synonymy:

  • M. sinensis (Schenkel, 1953) = Metleucauge yunohamensis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
  • M. vena (Dönitz & Strand, 1906) = Metleucauge kompirensis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Metleucauge Levi, 1980". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  2. Levi, H. W. (1980). "The orb-weaver genus Mecynogea, the subfamily Metinae and the genera Pachygnatha, Glenognatha and Azilia of the subfamily Tetragnathinae north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 149: 1–74.


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