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

Leucauge behemoth Ferreira-Sousa, Venticinque, Motta & Brescovit, 2023

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059551

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Instituto Butantan, São Paulo (IBSP), Brazil f (342780) - (Ferreira-Sousa et al., 2023)
Paratype: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil 1m 4f (18051) - (Ferreira-Sousa et al., 2023)
Paratype: Instituto Butantan, São Paulo (IBSP), Brazil 8m 8f (97726, 97729) - (Ferreira-Sousa et al., 2023)

Taxonomic References

Leucauge behemoth Ferreira-Sousa et al., 2023: 87, f. 1E-F, 2A-F, 3A-D, 4A-F, 5A-D (Dmf) Original description

References

Ferreira-Sousa, L., Venticinque, E. M., Motta, P. C. & Brescovit, A. D. (2023). The more, the merrier: a new colonial species of the orb weaving spider genus Leucauge White, 1841 (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from the Amazon rainforest. Zootaxa 5383(1): 83-95. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.1.7 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2023-12-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Ferreira-Sousa et al., 2023
2023-12-09	New species inserted	Ferreira-Sousa et al., 2023

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