Taxon details


Micrathena pungens (Walckenaer, 1841)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016608]
  • Distribution: Colombia to Bolivia
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  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Micrathena carvalhoi Mello-Leitão, 1944, (01451); 1 f (probably destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Plectana pungens Walckenaer, 1841: 173 (Df).
Acrosoma pungens Keyserling, 1864: 72, pl. 2, f. 5 (f).
Acrosoma luctuosa Taczanowski, 1873: 267, pl. 5, f. 21 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062630].
Acrosoma pungens Keyserling, 1892: 29, pl. 1, f. 26 (f).
Micrathena pungens Simon, 1895a: 861.
Micrathena luctuosa Petrunkevitch, 1911: 373.
Micrathena pungens Reimoser, 1917: 134, pl. 8, f. 25 (f).
Micrathena carvalhoi Mello-Leitão, 1944a: 9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062592].
Micrathena pungens Chickering, 1960d: 85, f. 76-79 (f, S of Micrathena luctuosa).
Micrathena pungens Levi, 1985a: 598, f. 784-791 (Dm, f, S of Micrathena carvalhoi).
References

Chickering, A. M. (1960d). Six new species of Micrathena (Araneae, Argiopidae) from South America with notes on known species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 135(1): 65-89. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1960.tb05831.x 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

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1944a). Algumas aranhas da região amazônica. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (N.S., Zool.) 25: 1-12. 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

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

Taczanowski, L. (1873). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 9: 113-150, 261-286. [pdf includes Taczanowski, 1872] 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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