Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Micrathena

Micrathena picta (C. L. Koch, 1836)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-10-23
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015520]
  • Distribution: Guyana to Paraguay
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  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Micrathena conspicuum Mello-Leitão, 1929, (00455); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Acrosoma pictum C. L. Koch, 1836a: 61, f. 214 (Df).
Plectana picta Walckenaer, 1841: 190.
Micrathena picta Petrunkevitch, 1911: 375.
Chaetacis picta Reimoser, 1917: 157.
Micrathena conspicuum Mello-Leitão, 1929c: 110, f. 21 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062597].
Chaetacis evansi Chickering, 1960a: 469, f. 12-16 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062607].
Chaetacis rugosa Chickering, 1960a: 471, f. 17-19 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062672].
Chaetacis picta Levi, 1985a: 609, f. 833-843 (mf, S of Chaetacis evansi, C. rugosa and Micrathena conspicua).
Chaetacis picta Levi, 2002: 551, f. 222-223 (m).
Micrathena picta Magalhaes & Santos, 2012: 31 (T from Chaetacis).
References

Chickering, A. M. (1960a). New species of Chaetacis (Araneae, Argiopidae) from South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (13) 2(20): 465-475. doi:10.1080/00222935908650878 download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2002). Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. Journal of Arachnology 30(3): 527-562. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0527:KTTGOA]2.0.CO;2 download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1929c). Aranhas do Pernambuco, colhidas por D. Bento Pickel. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 1: 91-112. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Reimoser, E. (1917). Die Spinnengattung Micrathena Sundevall. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 67: 73-160. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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