Taxon details

Family: Tetragnathidae / Genus: Leucauge

Leucauge festiva (Blackwall, 1866)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-01-27
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013722]
  • Distribution: Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Equatorial Africa, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Madagascar
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Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Tetragnatha festiva Blackwall, 1866: 467 (Df).
Meta splendida Butler, 1883: 765, pl. 57, f. 3 (Dmf).
Leucauge festiva Tullgren, 1910: 153, pl. 3, f. 76 (mf).
Leucauge festiva Wiehle, 1967b: 193, f. 41 (f).
Leucauge festiva Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020t: 16, p. 4: 1 f., p. 10: 1 f., p. 16: 7 f., p. 17: 4 f. (mf).
Leucauge festiva Dippenaar-Schoeman, Jones & Haddad, 2022: 15, f. 1-19 (mf).
Leucauge festiva Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2023a: 19, p. 13: 1 f., p. 19: 1-7 (mf).
References

Blackwall, J. (1866). A list of spiders captured in the south-east region of equatorial Africa, with descriptions of such species as appear to be new to arachnologists. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 18(108): 451-468. doi:10.1080/00222936608679683 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Butler, A. G. (1883). On some new or little known spiders from Madagascar. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 50(4, 1882): 763-768, pl. 57. [published in April 1883, after Duncan, 1937] doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1883.tb02795.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Jones, A. & Haddad, C. R. (2022). Notes on the silver vlei spider Leucauge festiva (Blackwall, 1866) from South Africa (Araneae: Araneidae). SANSA Newsletter 40(2021): 15-18. 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

Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6622 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1967b). Meta, – eine semientelegyne Gattung der Araneae (Arach.). Senckenbergiana Biologica 48(3): 183-196. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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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
2022-01-30 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman, Jones & Haddad, 2022 n/a
2022-01-30 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman, Jones & Haddad, 2022 n/a (Old value)