Leucauge argyra

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Araneoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Tetragnathidae
Subfamilia: Leucauginae
Genus: Leucauge
Species: Leucauge argyra

Name

Leucauge argyra (Walckenaer, 1841)

Type locality: Guadeloupe

Type lost according to Levi, 1980: 28.

Synonymy

• Tetragnatha argyra Walckenaer, 1841: 219 (original combination)
• Linyphia aurulenta Koch, 1845: 127
  • Type locality: St. Thomas.
• Linyphia ornata Taczanowski, 1874: 66
  • Type locality: Cayenne and St. Lament de Maron in French Guyana
    • Holotype: ISEA. female ♀.
• Leucauge argyroaffins Soares & Camargo, 1948: 381
  • Type locality: Chavantina, Estado de Mato Grosso, Brasil.
    • Holotype: MZUSP. male ♂. no. E812.

References

Primary references

• Walckenaer, C.A. 1841. Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Paris 2(for 1837), 1–549. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ferreira-Sousa, L., Venticinque, E.M., Motta, P.C. & Brescovit, A.D. 2023. The more, the merrier: a new colonial species of the orb weaving spider genus Leucauge White, 1841 (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from the Amazon rainforest. Zootaxa 5383(1): 083–095. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.1.7. . Reference page. 
• Levi, H.W. 1980a. 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. Reference page.