Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Araneus

Araneus meropes (Keyserling, 1865)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015019]
  • Distribution: Colombia to Argentina
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Taxonomic references
Epeira meropes Keyserling, 1865: 825, pl. 19, f. 6-7 (Dm).
Epeira meropes Keyserling, 1892: 139, pl. 7, f. 102 (m).
Araneus meropes Petrunkevitch, 1911: 302.
Araneus bourgeoisi Berland, 1913b: 93, pl. 9, f. 44-45 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062996].
Aranea plesia Chamberlin, 1916: 253, pl. 19, f. 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062997].
Larinia meropes Mello-Leitão, 1941b: 255 (T from Araneus).
Araneus meropes Levi, 1991a: 222, f. 158-167 (mf, removed from S of Araneus thaddeus, rejecting Levi, 1973: 543, S of Araneus bourgeoisi and A. plesius).
References

Berland, L. (1913b). Araignées. In: Mission du Service géographique de l'armée pour la mesure d'un arc du méridien équatorial en Amérique du Sud (1899-1906). Tome 10, fascicule 1. Gauthier-Villars, Paris, pp. 79-119, pl. 7-12. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.980 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1916). Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. The Arachnida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60: 177-299, pl. 1-25. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1865). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Orbitelae Latr. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 15: 799-856, pl. 18-21. 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. (1991a). The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152(4): 167-315. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941b). Catalogo das aranhas da Colombia. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 13: 233-300. 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

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