Taxon details
Leucauge argyrobapta (White, 1841)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2022-10-05
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013685]
- Distribution: USA to Brazil
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Leucauge hortorum Banks, 1909b: 163 (most likely this species, per Ballesteros & Hormiga, 2018: 192).
Leucauge argyrobapta Petrunkevitch, 1911: 355.
Leucauge mabelae Archer, 1951a: 6, f. 1-2 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055893].
Leucauge venusta Coddington, 1990: 17, f. 55 (m; misidentified per Ballesteros & Hormiga, 2018: 192).
Leucauge venusta Hormiga, Eberhard & Coddington, 1995: 324, f. 6H-I, 13H (m; misidentified per Ballesteros & Hormiga, 2018: 192).
Leucauge venusta Kuntner, Coddington & Hormiga, 2008: 177, f. 19A-C (m; misidentified per Ballesteros & Hormiga, 2018: 192).
Leucauge venusta Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2010: 24, f. 1A-G, 2A-F, 3A-B, 4A-D, 5A-G, 6A-G, 7A-D, 8A-G, 9A-F, 10A-G, 11A-G (mf; S of L. argyrobapta, rejected by Ballesteros & Hormiga, 2018: 192; misidentified per Ballesteros & Hormiga, 2018: 192).
Leucauge argyrobapta Ballesteros & Hormiga, 2018: 192, f. 7B (m; removed from S of L. venusta, contra Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2010: 24, S of Leucauge mabelae).
Archer, A. F. (1951a). Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae). 1. American Museum Novitates 1487: 1-52. 
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Ballesteros, J. A. & Hormiga, G. (2018). Species delimitation of the North American orchard-spider Leucauge venusta (Walckenaer, 1841) (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 121: 183-197. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.01.002 -- Show included taxa
Banks, N. (1909b). Arachnida of Cuba. In: Estación Central Agronómica, second report, 30 June 1905 - 1st January 1909. Part I. English edition. Secretaria de Agricultura, Comercio y Trabajo de la Republica de Cuba, pp. 150-174, pl. 45. -- Show included taxa
Coddington, J. A. (1990). Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 496: 1-52. -- Show included taxa
Dimitrov, D. & Hormiga, G. (2010). Mr. Darwin's mysterious spider: on the type species of the genus Leucauge White, 1841 (Tetragnathidae, Araneae). Zootaxa 2396: 19-36. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2396.1.2 -- Show included taxa
Hormiga, G., Eberhard, W. G. & Coddington, J. A. (1995). Web-construction behaviour in Australian Phonognatha and the phylogeny of nephiline and tetragnathid spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 43(4): 313-364. doi:10.1071/ZO9950313 -- Show included taxa
Kuntner, M., Coddington, J. A. & Hormiga, G. (2008). Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies. Cladistics 24(2): 147-217. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00176.x -- 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
White, A. (1841). Description of new or little known Arachnida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1) 7(46): 471-477. doi:10.1080/03745484109443624 -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-02-15 | Taxonomic reference added from other taxon | n/a (Old value) | |
| 2018-02-15 | Taxonomic reference added from other taxon | n/a (Old value) | |
| 2018-02-15 | Taxonomic reference added from other taxon | n/a (Old value) | |
| 2018-02-15 | Taxonomic reference added from other taxon | n/a (Old value) | |
| 2018-02-07 | Taxonomic reference added from other taxon | n/a (Old value) | |
| 2018-02-07 | Species synonymy | Ballesteros & Hormiga, 2018 | Leucauge mabelae synonymized with Leucauge argyrobapta |
| 2018-02-05 | Taxonomic reference added from other taxon | n/a (Old value) | |
| 2018-02-05 | New taxonomic reference entry | Ballesteros & Hormiga, 2018 | n/a |
| 2018-02-05 | Species updated | Ballesteros & Hormiga, 2018 | Removed synonymy (Old value) |