Metleucauge

Metleucauge is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1980.^[2]

Metleucauge
Metleucauge chikunii female
Scientific classification
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
Species
8, see text

Species

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

• List of Tetragnathidae species