Metleucauge Explained

Metleucauge is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1980.^[1]

Species

it contains eight species, found in Asia and the United States:^[2]

• 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

• List of Tetragnathidae species

Notes and References

1. 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. 1–74. 149. Herbert_Walter_Levi.
2. Gen. Metleucauge Levi, 1980. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-11-30. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.