Metleucauge

Metleucauge
Metleucauge chikunii female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Tetragnathidae
Genus: Metleucauge
Levi, 1980
Type species
M. eldorado
Levi, 1980
Species

8, see text

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

Species

As of October 2019 it contains eight species, found in Asia and the United States:

In synonymy:

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Metleucauge Levi, 1980". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  2. ↑ 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.