Taxon details


Leucauge decorata (Blackwall, 1864)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-01-27
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013712]
  • Distribution: Tanzania, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Comoros, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, China, Japan, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia
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  • Syntype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; 3f (3552/10) of Nephila angustata (Sankaran et al., 2020)
Taxonomic references
Tetragnatha decorata Blackwall, 1864b: 44 (Df).
Nephila angustata Stoliczka, 1869: 241, pl. 20, f. 7 (Df).
Tetragnatha decorata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869b: 389, pl. 13, f. 61-68 (f, Dm).
Meta decorata L. Koch, 1872a: 141, pl. 11, f. 5 (f).
Argyroepeira celebesiana Workman, 1896: 52, pl. 52 (f, misidentified).
Leucauge decorata Simon, 1906c: 282.
Leucauge decorata Lessert, 1915a: 23, pl. 1, f. 14-15, 22-23 (mf).
Leucauge decorata Gravely, 1921b: 451, 454, f. 8d-e (mf).
Leucauge decorata Dyal, 1935: 187, pl. 11, f. 7, pl. 16, f. 120-130 (mf).
Leucauge decorata Tikader, 1970: 41, f. d-f (f).
Leucauge decorata Chu & Okuma, 1970: 72, f. 4A-C (mf).
Leucauge decorata Chrysanthus, 1975: 23, f. 88-94 (mf).
Leucauge decorata Yin, 1976: 121, pl. III.1-5 (f).
Leucauge decorata Song, 1980: 117, f. 60a-c (f).
Leucauge decorata Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 41, f. 67-69 (f).
Leucauge decorata Tikader, 1982a: 78, f. 155-158 (f).
Leucauge decorata Hu, 1984: 138, f. 139.1-2 (f).
Leucauge decorata Guo, 1985: 81, f. 2-30.1-3 (f).
Leucauge decorata Chen & Gao, 1990: 77, f. 97a-b (f).
Leucauge decorata Tanikawa, 1990a: 10, f. 10-14 (mf).
Leucauge decorata Barrion & Litsinger, 1994: 328, f. 1755-1757 (f).
Leucauge decorata Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 539, f. 332a-g, 333a-f (mf).
Leucauge decorata Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 216, f. 121H-I, 122E-F, 130L-M (mf).
Leucauge decorata Hu, 2001: 592, f. 402.1-1 (f).
Leucauge decorata Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003: 228, f. 122A-E, 123A-D (mf).
Leucauge decorate Butt & Siraj, 2006: 217, f. 2A-C (f, lapsus).
Leucauge decorata Gajbe, 2007: 509, f. 263-265 (f).
Leucauge decorata Tanikawa, 2007c: 102, f. 354, 806-807 (mf).
Leucauge decorata Tanikawa, 2009: 412, f. 43-44 (mf).
Leucauge decorata Yin et al., 2012: 437, f. 196a-e (f).
Leucauge decorata Sen et al., 2015: 102, f. 595-600, pl. 21 (f).
Leucauge decorata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020t: 14, p. 14: 7 f., p. 15: 6 f. (mf).
Leucauge decorata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2023a: 17, p. 17: 1-7, p. 18: 8-9 (mf).
References

Barrion, A. T. & Litsinger, J. A. (1994). Taxonomy of rice insect pests and their arthropod parasites and predators. In: Heinrichs, E. A. (ed.) Biology and Management of Rice Insects. Wiley Eastern, New Delhi, pp. 13-15, 283-359. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Barrion, A. T. & Litsinger, J. A. (1995). Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, 700 pp., 16 pls. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1864b). Descriptions of seven new species of East Indian spiders received from the Rev. O. P. Cambridge. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 14(79): 36-45. doi:10.1080/00222936408681653 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Butt, A. & Siraj, A. (2006). Some orb weaver spiders from Punjab, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 38: 215-220. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chen, X. E. & Gao, J. C. (1990). The Sichuan farmland spiders in China. Sichuan Science and Technology Publishing House, Chengdu, 226 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chrysanthus, P. (1975). Further notes on the spiders of New Guinea II (Araneae, Tetragnathidae, Theridiidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 140: 1-50. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chu, Y. I. & Okuma, C. (1970). Preliminary survey on the spider-fauna of the paddy fields in Taiwan. Mushi 44: 65-88. 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

Dyal, S. (1935). Fauna of Lahore. 4.–Spiders of Lahore. Bulletin of the Department of Zoology of the Panjab University 1: 119-252, pl. 11-17. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gajbe, U. A. (2007). Araneae: Arachnida. In: Fauna of Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh), State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata 15(1), 419-540. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gravely, F. H. (1921b). Some Indian spiders of the subfamily Tetragnathinae. Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta 22: 423-459. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Guo, J. F. (ed.) (1985). [Farm spiders from Shaanxi Province]. Shaanxi Science and Technology Press. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. (1984). The Chinese spiders collected from the fields and the forests. Tianjin Science and Technology Press, 482 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. (2001). Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Henan Science and Technology Publishing House, 658 pp. download pdf download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1915a). Arachnides de l'Ouganda et de l'Afrique orientale allemande. Voyage du Dr J. Carl dans la région des lacs de l'Afrique centrale. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 23(1): 1-89, pl. 1-3. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1869b). Catalogue of a collection of Ceylon Araneida lately received from Mr J. Nietner, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. I. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10(46): 373-397, pl. 11-13. [pp. 395-397, pl. 11-13 publ. in issue 47 in 1870, doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1870.tb00668.x] doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1869.tb00667.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sen, S., Dhali, D. C., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2015). Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary. World Scientific News 20: 1-339. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1906c). Voyage de M. Maurice Maindron dans l'Inde méridionale (mai à novembre 1901). 8me Mémoire. Arachnides (2e partie). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 75(3): 279-314. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X. (ed.) (1980). [Farm Spiders]. Science Press, Beijing, 247 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Stoliczka, F. (1869). Contribution towards the knowledge of Indian Arachnoidea. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, part II (Physical Science) 38(4): 201-251, pl. 18-20. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A. (1990a). Two newly recorded spiders, Tetragnatha chauliodus (Thorell, 1890) and Leucauge decorata (Blackwall, 1864) (Araneae: Tetragnathidae), from Japan. Atypus 95: 8-13. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A. (2007c). An identification guide to the Japanese spiders of the families Araneidae, Nephilidae and Tetragnathidae. Arachnological Society of Japan, 121 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A. (2009). Hersiliidae. Nephilidae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 149, 403-463. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1970). Spider fauna of Sikkim. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 64: 1-83. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. & Biswas, B. (1981). Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 30: 1-149. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1982a). Part 1. Family Araneidae (= Argiopidae). Typical orb-weavers. In: The fauna of India. Spiders: Araneae. Vol. II. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 1-293. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Workman, T. (1896). Malaysian spiders. Belfast, pp. 25-104. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.101972 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M. (1976). [A study on tetragnathids (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from rice fields]. Journal of Hunan Teachers College (nat. Sci. Ed.) 1976(5): 119-141. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha, 1590 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S., Song, D. X. & Zhang, J. X. (2003). Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata Vol. 35: Arachnida: Araneae: Tetragnathidae. Science Press, Beijing, 418 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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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)
2022-07-20 Species distribution update n/a (Old value)
2021-11-01 Species distribution update Lessert, 1915a n/a (Old value)
2015-12-10 New taxonomic reference entry Sen et al., 2015 n/a