Gen.
Micrathena Sundevall, 1833 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01518 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Acrosoma Perty, 1833: 193 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05437] (type A. swainsoni Perty, 1833, designated by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 525) and Keyserlingia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890a: 58 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05438] (type K. cornigera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890 = Micrathena sexspinosa (Hahn, 1822)) by Simon, 1895a: 859; considered a senior synonym of Ildibaha Keyserling, 1892: 31 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05296] (type I. albomaculata Keyserling, 1892 = Micrathena flaveola (Perty, 1839)) by Levi, 1985: 440, of Thaumastobella Mello-Leitão, 1945a: 263 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05297] (type T. mourei Mello-Leitão, 1945 = Micrathena saccata (C. L. Koch, 1836)) by Scharff, 1991: 155, and of Chaetacis Simon, 1895a: 963 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01455] (type Acrosoma affine C. L. Koch, 1839 = Micrathena aureola (C. L. Koch, 1836)) by Magalhães & Santos, 2012: 29; Acrosoma is considered a senior synonym of Meganopla Simon, 1864: 292 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05439] (type Epeira cyanospina Lucas, 1835, designated by Bonnet, 1957: 2752) by Butler, 1873b: 420; furthermore Keyserlingia is preoccupied in Brachiopoda by Pander, 1861.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2024-10-28
2024-10-28
Described in
Sundevall, 1833b: 14 (type Epeira clypeata Walckenaer, 1805; gender feminine)
Sundevall, 1833b: 14 (type Epeira clypeata Walckenaer, 1805; gender feminine)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 117 | accepted |
| 148 | synonym |
| 6 | nomen nudum |
| 2 | nomen dubium |
| 1 | homonym replaced |
Reference
Edit history
Sundevall, C. J. (1833b). Conspectus Arachnidum. C. F. Berling, Londini Gothorum [= Lund], pp. 1-39. 
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