World Spider Catalog

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

Leucauge paranensis Mello-Leitão, 1937

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013852

Permalink: https://wsc.psbrands-services.de/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013852

Described:

Distribution: Brazil

External Resources*: GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Cyclosa paranensis Mello-Leitão, 1937, (41529); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Cyclosa paranensis Mello-Leitão, 1937a: 7, f. 7 (Df) Original description

Mecynometa paranensis Levi, 1999: 310 (Tf from Cyclosa)

Opas paranensis Levi, 2008b: 169 (Tf from Mecynometa)

References

Levi, H. W. (1999). The Neotropical and Mexican Orb Weavers of the genera Cyclosa and Allocyclosa (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 155: 299-379. -- 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

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1937a). Aranhas novas ou raras. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 9: 1-12. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2021-11-11	Transferred to other genus after syn. gen	Ballesteros & Hormiga, 2021		Species transferred from Opas to Leucauge after genus synonymy