Taxon details
Micrathena plana (C. L. Koch, 1836)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: - -
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016607]
- Distribution: Virgin Is. to Argentina
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- Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Micrathena ornata Mello-Leitão, 1932, (18276); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018)
Plectana degeerii Walckenaer, 1841: 174 (Df; N.B.: omitted by Levi, 1985).
Plectana plana Walckenaer, 1841: 188.
Plectana alata Walckenaer, 1841: 193 (Df).
Acrosoma maronica Taczanowski, 1873: 272, pl. 6, f. 24 (Df).
Acrosoma alatum Butler, 1873b: 425.
Acrosoma degeeri Butler, 1873b: 425.
Micrathena plana Simon, 1895a: 852.
Micrathena alata Simon, 1895a: 859.
Micrathena maronica Simon, 1895a: 861.
Micrathena degeeri Petrunkevitch, 1911: 368 ().
Micrathena plana Reimoser, 1917: 109, pl. 5, f. 11 (f).
Micrathena ornata Mello-Leitão, 1932a: 86, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016600].
Micrathena nitida Chickering, 1964: 272, f. 51-56 (Dm).
Micrathena plana Levi, 1985a: 509, f. 311-325 (f, Sm).
Micrathena ornata Levi, 1985a: 546, f. 521-524 (f).
Micrathena plana Gonzaga & Santos, 2004: 333 (S).
Micrathena plana Magalhaes & Santos, 2011b: 48 (S).
Micrathena plana Magalhaes & Santos, 2012: 33, f. 17 (m).
Butler, A. G. (1873b). A list of the spiders of the genus Acrosoma. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41(2): 420-429. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1873.tb00505.x 
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Chickering, A. M. (1964). The genus Micrathena (Araneae, Araneidae) in the West Indies. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 131(8): 251-281. -- Show included taxa
Gonzaga, M. O. & Santos, A. J. (2004). A new species and a new synonymy in the spiny orb-weaver spider genus Micrathena (Araneae, Araneidae). Journal of Arachnology 32: 332-335. -- Show included taxa
Koch, C. L. (1836a). Die Arachniden. Dritter Band. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, pp. 1-104, pl. 73-105 (f. 164-245). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1985a). The spiny orb-weaver genera Micrathena and Chaetacis (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 150: 429-618. -- Show included taxa
Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Santos, A. J. (2011b). Two new species and taxonomic notes on the Neotropical spiny orb-weaving spiders Micrathena and Chaetacis (Araneae: Araneidae), with remaks on the development of Micrathena excavata. Zootaxa 2983: 39-56. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2983.1.3 -- Show included taxa
Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Santos, A. J. (2012). Phylogenetic analysis of Micrathena and Chaetacis spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) reveals multiple origins of extreme sexual size dimorphism and long abdominal spines. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166(1): 14-53. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00831.x -- Show included taxa
Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1932a). Notas sobre ao Micratheneas do Brasil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 4: 73-97. -- Show included taxa
Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa
Reimoser, E. (1917). Die Spinnengattung Micrathena Sundevall. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 67: 73-160. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1895a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 761-1084. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 -- Show included taxa
Taczanowski, L. (1873). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 9: 113-150, 261-286. [pdf includes Taczanowski, 1872] -- Show included taxa
Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 -- Show included taxa
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