Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Micrathena

Micrathena acuta (Walckenaer, 1841)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016531]
  • Distribution: Trinidad to Argentina
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019); Ildibaha inermis Schenkel, 1953, 1 m (NMB-ARAN-01789 a)
  • Holotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; j (084) of Micrathena alpha (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Taxonomic references
Plectana acuta Walckenaer, 1841: 172 (Df).
Acrosoma acutum Keyserling, 1864: 71, pl. 2, f. 4 (f).
Acrosoma acutum Keyserling, 1892: 28, pl. 1, f. 25 (f).
Micrathena acuta Simon, 1895a: 853.
Micrathena alpha Caporiacco, 1947a: 26 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062580].
Ildibaha inermis Schenkel, 1953a: 28, f. 25a-b (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062622].
Micrathena acuta Levi, 1985a: 542, f. 498-507 (mf, S of Ildibaha inermis and Micrathena alpha).
References

Caporiacco, L. di (1947a). Diagnosi preliminari de specie nuove di aracnidi della Guiana Brittanica raccolte dai professori Beccari e Romiti. Monitore Zoologico Italiano 56: 20-34. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1864). Beschreibungen neuer und wenig bekannter Arten aus der Familie Orbitelae Latr. oder Epeiridae Sund. Sitzungs-Berichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden 1863: 63-98, 119-154, pl. 1-7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1892). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 1-208. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 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

Schenkel, E. (1953a). Bericht über einige Spinnentiere aus Venezuela. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 64: 1-57. download pdf -- 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 download pdf 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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