Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Paraverrucosa

Paraverrucosa heteracantha (Mello-Leitão, 1943)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2020-04-02
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017117]
  • Distribution: Brazil, Argentina
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Actinosoma heteracanthum Mello-Leitão, 1943, (42468); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018)
  • Paratype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Actinosoma heteracanthum Mello-Leitão, 1943, (42514); 1 j (survived the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Actinosoma heteracanthum Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 174, f. 15, 15a (Df).
Wagneriana heteracantha Levi, 1991b: 394, f. 105-109 (Dm, f, T from Actinosoma).
Paraverrucosa heteracantha Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020: 1037, f. 44C-D, 58F, 66D, 86E-F, 100C-D, 103E, 121A-B (mf, T from Wagneriana).
References

Cabra-García, J. & Hormiga, G. (2020). Exploring the impact of morphology, multiple sequence alignment and choice of optimality criteria in phylogenetic inference: a case study with the Neotropical orb-weaving spider genus Wagneriana (Araneae: Araneidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188(4): 976-1151. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz088 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1991b). The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Edricus and Wagneriana (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152: 363-415. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1943a). Catálogo das aranhas do Rio Grande do Sul. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 37: 147-245, 24 pls. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2020-04-02 New taxonomic reference entry Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020 n/a
2020-04-02 Species transferred to new genus Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020 Species transferred from Wagneriana to Paraverrucosa