Leucauge decorata, the decorative silver orb spider, is one of the long-jawed orb weaver spiders. A medium to large sized orb weaving spider, with a body length up to 12 mm long (female). Male to 6 mm. This species has a "point" to the end of the abdomen.
| Decorative silver orb spider | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Tetragnathidae |
| Genus: | Leucauge |
| Species: | L. decorata
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| Binomial name | |
| Leucauge decorata (Walckenaer, 1842)
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The species is distributed in Africa, India, Nepal, Pakistan, south east Asia, and Australia. [1][2][3] It is found in forests, grasslands, rice fields, and urban areas.[4] In urban areas, streetlights attracted insects leading to more webs of L. decorata on trees beside such lights.[4]
L. decorata was among the preferred spider species predated by the mud-dauber wasp Sceliphron madraspatanum for larval food in Pune city.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Leucauge decorata". Arachne.org.au. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
- ^ Ron Atkinson. "Leucauge decorata (Walckenaer, 1841)". Find A Spider Guide. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
- ^ "Decorative Vleispider (Leucauge decorata)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ^ a b Muni, Nending; Mishra, Abhinav; Rastogi, Neelkamal (2022). "Effects of street lights on the web site selection of two species of spiders Neoscona theisi (Walckenaer, 1841) and Leucauge decorata (Blackwall, 1864)". Dera Natung Government College Research Journal. 7 (1): 61–69. doi:10.56405/dngcrj.2022.07.01.06. ISSN 2583-5483.
- ^ Bastawade, D. B. (1993). "SPIDERS AS LARVAL FOOD OF SOELIPHRON VIOLAOEUM (DAHLB.) (HYMENOPTERA: SPHECIDAE)". Rec. Zool. Surv. India. 93 (3–4): 361–365.