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Genus: Leucauge White, 1841 | Family: Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866

Leucauge globosa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013849

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Described:

Distribution: Guatemala to Brazil

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f - (Levi, 2008b)
Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f of Mecynometa flabilis - (Levi, 2008b)
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f of Mecynometa gemmata - (Levi, 2008b)
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France j of Mecynometa scintillans - (Levi, 2008b)

Taxonomic References

Meta globosa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889d: 2, pl. 1, f. 5 (Df) Original description

Argyroepeira globosa Keyserling, 1893: 318, pl. 16, f. 234 (f)

Argyroepeira flabilis Keyserling, 1893: 355, pl. 18, f. 262 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013846]

Mecynometa globosa Simon, 1894a: 737, f. 810

Mecynometa gemmata Simon, 1894a: 737 (nomen nudum)

Mecynometa scintillans Simon, 1894a: 737 (nomen nudum)

Mecynometa scintillans Simon, 1895g: 152 (Df; type is immature per Levi, 2008b: 167) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013853]

Mecynometa gemmata Simon, 1895g: 152 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013847]

Mecynometa globosa F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903a: 443, pl. 42, f. 14 (f)

Mecynometa flabilis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 361

Mecynometa globosa Chickering, 1963e: 180, f. 1-5 (f, Dm)

Mecynometa globosa Heimer, 1990: 120, f. 32-33 (mf)

Mecynometa globosa Levi, 2008b: 167, f. 1-10 (mf, S of Mecynometa flabilis, M. gemmata and M. scintillans)

References

Chickering, A. M. (1963e). The male of Mecynometa globosa (O. P.-Cambridge) (Araneae, Argiopidae). Psyche, Cambridge 70(3): 180-183. doi: 10.1155/1963/42783 -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. (1990). Untersuchungen zur Evolution der Kopulationsorgane bei Spinnen (Arachnida, Araneae). Entomologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 53: 1-25, 97-123. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1893). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 209-377. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2008b). On the tetragnathid genera Alcimosphenus, Leucauge, Mecynometa and Opas (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Journal of Arachnology 36(1): 167-170. doi: 10.1636/A07-67SC.1 -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1889d). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 1-56, pl. 1-8. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1903a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 425-464. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1894a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 489-760. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1895g). Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64: 131-160. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2021-11-11	Species transferred to new genus	Ballesteros & Hormiga, 2021		Species transferred from Mecynometa to Leucauge