Taxon details
Leucauge behemoth Ferreira-Sousa, Venticinque, Motta & Brescovit, 2023
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
- Described:
- Last updated: 2023-12-09
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059551]
- Distribution: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
Type deposit provide information
- Holotype: Instituto Butantan, São Paulo (IBSP), Brazil; f (342780) (Ferreira-Sousa et al., 2023)
- Paratype: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil; 1m 4f (18051) (Ferreira-Sousa et al., 2023)
- Paratype: Instituto Butantan, São Paulo (IBSP), Brazil; 8m 8f (97726, 97729) (Ferreira-Sousa et al., 2023)
Taxonomic references
Leucauge behemoth Ferreira-Sousa et al., 2023: 87, f. 1E-F, 2A-F, 3A-D, 4A-F, 5A-D (Dmf).
References
Edit historyFerreira-Sousa, L., Venticinque, E. M., Motta, P. C. & Brescovit, A. D. (2023). The more, the merrier: a new colonial species of the orb weaving spider genus Leucauge White, 1841 (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from the Amazon rainforest. Zootaxa 5383(1): 83-95. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5383.1.7 -- Show included taxa
Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
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2023-12-09 | New taxonomic reference entry | Ferreira-Sousa et al., 2023 | n/a |
2023-12-09 | New species inserted | Ferreira-Sousa et al., 2023 | n/a |