Metleucauge

Metleucauge is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1980.

Species
it contains eight species, found in Asia and the United States:
 * Metleucauge chikunii Tanikawa, 1992 – China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
 * Metleucauge davidi (Schenkel, 1963) – China, Taiwan
 * Metleucauge dentipalpis (Kroneberg, 1875) – Central Asia
 * Metleucauge eldorado Levi, 1980 (type) – USA
 * Metleucauge kompirensis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
 * Metleucauge minuta Yin, 2012 – China
 * Metleucauge yaginumai Tanikawa, 1992 – Japan
 * Metleucauge yunohamensis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan

In synonymy:
 * M. sinensis (Schenkel, 1953) = Metleucauge yunohamensis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
 * M. vena (Dönitz & Strand, 1906) = Metleucauge kompirensis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)