Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Leucauge argyra
Along coast on Rábida and Santa Cruz (town of Puerto Ayora); in an orchard in the Culture zone of San Cristóbal.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Araneoidea
Family
Tetragnathidae
Genus
Leucauge
Species
argyra
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Distribution: USA to Brazil. Galápagos distribution: Floreana, Rábida, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz (Baert et al., 2023).
- Baert, L. Jean-Pierre Maelfait, Konjev Desender, Frederik Hendrickx (2023) Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1–188.
- Baert, L.L. Maelfait, J.-P. (2000) Check List of the Described Spider Species of the Galápagos Archipelago (Araneae). Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Entomol. 70: 243-245.
- Baert, L.L. Malfait, J.-P., Hendrickx, F. & Desender, K. (2008) Distribution and Habitat Preference of the Spiders (Araneae) of Galápagos. Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Entomol. 78: 39-111.
- Buchholz, S. Baert, L., Rodríguez, J., E Causton, C., & Jäger, H. (2020) Spiders in Galapagos–diversity, biogeography and origin. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 130(1), 41-48.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Leucauge argyra", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=6567. Accessed 9 June 2026.