Metleucauge
| Metleucauge | |
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| Metleucauge chikunii female | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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| Species | |
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Metleucauge is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1980.[2]
Species
[edit]As of October 2019[update] it contains eight species, found in Asia and the United States:[1]
- Metleucauge chikunii Tanikawa, 1992 – China, 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Metleucauge Levi, 1980". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
- ^ 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.