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Genus: Leucauge White, 1841 | Family: Tetragnathidae Simon, 1864

Leucauge dromedaria (Thorell, 1881)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013717

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Distribution: Australia, New Zealand

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Syntype: Canterbury Museum, Christchurch (CMC), New Zealand 2m of Nephila argentata - (Nicholls et al., 2000)

Taxonomic References

Meta granulata L. Koch, 1872a: 136, pl. 10, f. 5 (f; misidentified per Thorell, 1881: 128)

Meta dromedaria Thorell, 1881: 128 (Df) Original description

Nephila argentatum Urquhart, 1887: 92, pl. 8, f. 3-3a (Dmf; preoccupied in Leucauge by O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869, see Leucauge granulata) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:067415]

Leucauge dromedaria Dalmas, 1917a: 371, f. 39 (m, S of Nephila argentata)

Leucauge dromedaria Paquin, Vink & Dupérré, 2010: 50, f. 26.6-7 (mf)

References

Dalmas, R. de (1917a). Araignées de Nouvelle-Zélande. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 86: 317-430. -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1872a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 3-7]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 105-368, pl. 8-28. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P., Vink, C. & Dupérré, N. (2010). Spiders of New Zealand: annotated family key & species list. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand, 118 pp. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1881). Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 17: 1-720. -- Show included taxa

Urquhart, A. T. (1887). On new species of Araneida. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 19: 72-118, pl. 7-8. -- Show included taxa

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