Tetragnatha

Picture ID 15096

Picture of Tetragnatha - Dorsal

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This spider of the genus Dianleucauge has hanging on its net in a publicitary wall in a garden of Shangri-La thematic park at the Shi Wai Tao Yuan river, Guilin province, China. I have two more images: one of the same individual at resting position (with the four forelegs directed frontwards) and one is a cropped detail of this same photo where the cheliceres can be seen better. I initially tought it was a Tetragnatha but somebody told me that it's a Dianleucauge, but, which species?

  • Submitted by: 
    Isidro
  • Submitted: May 24, 2018
  • Photographed: Nov 6, 2006
  • Spider: Tetragnatha
  • Location: Shangri-La, China
  • Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
  • Found in web?: Yes
  • Attributes: Dorsal
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ItsyBitsy

Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 Superficially this looks like Tetragnatha. I wasn’t familiar with Dianleucauge so I looked it up. There is only one species in the genus – Dianleucauge deelemanae. There is an illustration for it on page 54 in “Zhu, M. S., Song, D. X. & Zhang, J. X., 2003”. It doesn’t look like your spider, it’s depicted with a much shorter abdomen, the description is in Chinese though and I don’t know how to read it. I’d stick with Tetragnatha but there are too many of them for me to suggest a species.

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Picture of Tetragnatha spp. - Male - Lateral Enlarge Picture
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