Leucauge subblanda Bösenberg et Strand, 1906

Figs 32–35, 39–42

Leucauge subblanda: Tanikawa, 2007: 102, figs 350-353, 804-805 (♂♀); Tanikawa, 2009: 412, figs 41-42 (mf); Yoshida, 2009b: 12, figs 5-8 (♂♀).

Leucauge bimaculata Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003: 219, figs 116A-F (♂♀).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Russia: Primorskii krai, Ussuriyskii District, Gornotaezhnaya Station, 43°41'68'' N, 132°9'25'' E, 1.VII 2002, 1♂, coll. M. Omelko (ZMMU) ; Gornotaezhnaya Station, Kabaniy Spring, 43°50'58'' N, 1 32°7'48'' E, 5.VI 2002, 3♀, coll. M. Omelko (ZMMU) ; Kamenushka vill., ca. 43°37' N, 132°14' E, summer 1981, 7♀, coll. G. Belova (ZMMU) .

Figs 32-38. Leucauge subblanda (32–35) and L. subgemmea (36–38). 32, 36 – female habitus, lateral; 33, 37 – female habitus, dorsal; 34, 38 – epigyne, ventral; 35 – femur IV of male showing 2 rows of trichobothria. Scale = 0.2 mm if not otherwise indicated.

NOTES. This species has a Palaearchaearctic range and is known from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China (WSC, 2016) and Primorskii krai (Marusik, 1989). Recently, this species was confused with L. magnifica Yaginuma, 1 9 5 4 = L. celebesiana (Walckenaer, 1841) by Chinese and Korean authors (Kim et al., 1999; Namkung, 2002; Song et al., 1999; Zhu et al., 2003: see WSC, 2016), and it was even considered a junior synonym of L. celebesiana . Yoshida (2009b) revalidated L. subblanda . In the latest catalog of Russian spiders (Mikhailov, 2013) it is listed as L. celebesiana . Males of L. subblanda (Figs 39–42) are rather similar to several other congeners occurring in Southeast Asia, although females are easily differentiated from all other species (Fig. 34). Leucauge subblanda is easily differentiated from another Leucauge, L. subgemmea, occurring in the Russian Far East, by having a more elongate abdomen and longitudinal lines on the dorsum of the abdomen (Figs 32, 33 and 36, 37).