Taxon details

Family: Tetragnathidae / Genus: Leucauge

Leucauge argyrescens Benoit, 1978

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-01-27
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013683]
  • Distribution: South Africa, Eswatini, Comoros, Seychelles
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium (database excerpt, Feb. 2019); (143155)
Taxonomic references
Leucauge argyrescens Benoit, 1978f: 671, f. 3E-F (Df).
Leucauge russellsmithi Locket, 1980: 122, f. 15-25 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013797].
Leucauge argyrescens Locket, 1980: 122, f. 26-28 (f).
Leucauge argyrescens Saaristo, 2003: 17, f. 2-7 (mf, S of Leucauge russellsmithi).
Leucauge argyrescens Saaristo, 2010: 230, f. 36.1-8 (mf).
Leucauge argyrescens Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020t: 12, 7 f. (mf).
Leucauge argyrescens Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022l: 11, f. 1-13 (mf).
Leucauge argyrescens Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2023a: 15, f. 1-7 (mf).
References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1978f). Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Séchelles (Mission P.L.G. Benoit - J.J. Van Mol 1972). Tetragnathidae et Araneidae-Nephilinae (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 92: 663-674. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Wiese, L. & Webb, P. (2022l). First record of Leucauge argyrescens Benoit, 1978 from South Africa (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). SANSA Newsletter 43: 11-12. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7142162 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020t). The Tetragnathidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 46 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7578068 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2023a). The Tetragnathidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 50 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7513261 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H. (1980). Some spiders from the Comoro Islands. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5(3): 117-128. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2003). Tetragnathid spiders of Seychelles (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Phelsuma 11: 13-28. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-01-27 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2023a n/a
2023-01-27 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020t n/a
2023-01-27 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020t n/a (Old value)
2022-10-05 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022l n/a
2022-10-05 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022l n/a (Old value)