Metleucauge

Life-forms

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: Metleucauge
Species: M. chikunii – M. davidi – M. dentipalpis – M. eldorado – M. kompirensis – M. yaginumai – M. yunohamensis
Name

Metleucauge Levi, 1980

Type species: Metleucauge eldorado Levi, 1980
References

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
English: Metleucauge

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]

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)