Nearctic States & Provinces: ON AL FL LA MD MO NY OK SC TN TX VA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/13834
Leucauge venusta (Walckenaer, 1842)
orchard orbweaver
FAMILY: TETRAGNATHIDAE Menge, 1866
Genus: Leucauge White, 1841
Species: Leucauge venusta (Walckenaer, 1842)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
longjawed orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
orchard orbweaver
Distribution
Global Distribution: Canada to Panama
Nearctic States & Provinces:
ON AL FL LA MD MO NY OK SC TN TX VA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
orb weavers
‡Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280.
Recorded Habitats:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
Credit: Murray, Tom
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Epeira venusta Walckenaer 1842 |
| Leucauge venusta Walckenaer 1842 |
| Epeira hortorum Hentz 1847 |
| Tetragnatha 5-lineata Keyserling 1864 |
| Argyroepeira hortorum Emerton 1884 |
| Argyroepeira hortorum Keyserling 1893 |
| Argyroepeira venusta McCook 1894 |
| Argyroepeira hortorum Emerton 1902 |
| Leucauge venusta F. O. P.-Cambridge 1903 |
| Leucauge hortorum Banks 1909 |
| Leucauge venusta Petrunkevitch 1930 |
| Leucauge venusta Saito 1933 |
| Leucauge hortorum Franganillo 1936 |
| Leucauge venusta Kaston 1948 |
| Leucauge mabelae Archer 1951 |
| Leucauge venusta Archer 1951 |
| Leucauge venusta Wiehle 1967 |
| Leucauge venusta Levi 1980 |
| Leucauge venusta Coddington 1990 |
| Leucauge venusta Hormiga, Eberhard & Coddington 1995 |
| Leucauge venusta Dondale et al. 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Archer, A. F. 1951. Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae). 1. Am. Mus. Novit. 1487: 1-52.
Banks, N. 1909. Arachnida of Cuba. Estación central agronómica de Cuba, Second Report. II: 150-174.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1903. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 425-464.
Coddington, J. A. 1990. Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 496: 1-52.
Dondale, C. D., J. H. Redner, P. Paquin & H. W. Levi. 2003. The insects and arachnids of Canada. Part 23. The orb-weaving spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Uloboridae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae, Theridiosomatidae). NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 371 pp.
Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Emerton, J. H. 1884. New England spiders of the family Epeiridae. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 6: 295-342.
Franganillo B., P. 1936. Los ar cnidos de Cuba hasta 1936. Cultural, La Habana, 183 pp.
Hentz, N. M. 1847. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 5: 443-478.
Hormiga, G., W. G. Eberhard & J. A. Coddington. 1995. Web-construction behaviour in Australian Phonognatha and the phylogeny of nephiline and tetragnathid spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Aust. J. Zool. 43: 313-364.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Keyserling, E. 1893. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Nürnberg, 4: 209-377.
Keyserling, E. 1864. Beschreibungen neuer und wenig bekannter Arten aus der Familie Orbitelae Latr. oder Epeiridae Sund. Sitz.-ber. nat. Ges. Isis Dresden 1863: 63-98, 119-154.
Levi, H. W. 1980. The orb-weaver genus Mecynogea, the subfamily Metinae and the genera Pachygnatha, Glenognatha and Azilia of the subfamily Tetragnathinae north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 149: 1-7
McCook, H. C. 1894. American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia, 3: 1-285.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1930. The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 30: 159-356.
Saito, S. 1933. Notes on the spiders from Formosa. Trans. Sapporo nat. Hist. Soc. 13: 32-61.
Walckenaer, C. A. 1842. Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Paris, 2: 1-549.
Wiehle, H. 1967. Meta,-eine semientelegyne Gattung der Araneae (Arach.). Senckenberg. biol. 48: 183-196.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/TETRAGNATHIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Leucauge White, 1841‡‡
L. argyra (Walckenaer, 1842) ...............USA to Brazil
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution