Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Micrathena

Micrathena excavata (C. L. Koch, 1836)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016562]
  • Distribution: Panama to Brazil
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Taxonomic references
Acrosoma excavatum C. L. Koch, 1836a: 80, f. 227 (Df).
Micrathena excavata Petrunkevitch, 1911: 369.
Micrathena excavata Reimoser, 1917: 108, pl. 5, f. 9 (f).
Micrathena mirifica Chickering, 1961a: 437, f. 117-121 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062640].
Micrathena subflava Chickering, 1961a: 461, f. 189-193 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062679].
Micrathena excavata Levi, 1985a: 516, f. 347-353 (mf, S of Micrathena mirifica and M. subflava).
References

Chickering, A. M. (1961a). The genus Micrathena (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Central America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 125(13): 389-470. 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

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

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