Leucauge subblanda Bösenberg et Strand, 1906

Marusik, Omelko & Koponen, 2016, Rare And New For The Fauna Of The Russian Far East Spiders (Aranei), Far Eastern Entomologist 317, pp. 1-15 : 9-10

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).

Figures

Figs 39 – 42. Male palp of Leucauge subblanda. 39 – whole palp, retrolateral; 40 – 42 – terminal part of palp, pro-lateral, ventral and retrolateral. Scale = 0.2 mm.