Metleucauge
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Tetragnathidae |
| Genus: | Metleucauge Levi, 1980[1] |
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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[]
As of October 2019 it contains eight species, found in Asia and the United States:[1]
- Tanikawa, 1992 – China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
- (Schenkel, 1963) – China, Taiwan
- (Kroneberg, 1875) – Central Asia
- Levi, 1980 (type) – USA
- (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
- Yin, 2012 – China
- Tanikawa, 1992 – Japan
- (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[]
- ^ Jump up to: 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.
Categories:
- Araneomorphae genera
- Spiders of Asia
- Spiders of Russia
- Tetragnathidae
- Tetragnathidae stubs