Taxon details


Micrathena horrida (Taczanowski, 1873)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-10-23
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016581]
  • Distribution: Greater Antilles, Mexico to Argentina
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); f (58345, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Micrathena mastonota
  • Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 3f (078, 079, 080) of Micrathena multituberculata (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Taxonomic references
Acrosoma horrida Taczanowski, 1873: 281, pl. 6, f. 31 (Df).
Acrosoma mammillatum Butler, 1873b: 427 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062699].
Acrosoma raceminum Butler, 1873b: 427 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062663].
Acrosoma longicauda O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890a: 61, pl. 8, f. 9 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062628].
Acrosoma longicauda Keyserling, 1892: 15, pl. 1, f. 11 (m).
Micrathena horrida Simon, 1895a: 851, f. 898, 919 (f).
Micrathena mammillata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 529.
Micrathena longicauda F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 530, pl. 50, f. 5 (m).
Micrathena horrida Petrunkevitch, 1910: 212, pl. 21, f. 9-11 (f).
Micrathena simoni Petrunkevitch, 1910: 213 (new name for Micrathena horrida sensu Simon) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062677].
Micrathena racemina Petrunkevitch, 1911: 376.
Micrathena horrida Reimoser, 1917: 85, pl. 2, f. 2 (f, S of Micrathena mammillata).
Micrahtena mammillata tuberculata Franganillo, 1930: 31 (lapsus, D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016582].
Micrathena horrida Mello-Leitão, 1932a: 79, f. 2a.
Micrathena mammillata Bryant, 1940: 374, f. 142, 147, 155 (mf).
Micrathena mastonota Mello-Leitão, 1940d: 209 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062635].
Micrathena multituberculata Caporiacco, 1947a: 25 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062644].
Micrathena multituberculata Caporiacco, 1948a: 665, f. 75-78 (f).
Micrathena horrida Bonnet, 1957: 2870 (S of Micrathena mammillata tuberculata).
Micrathena horrida Chickering, 1961a: 424, f. 83-88 (mf, S of Micrathena longicauda, S of M. mammillata confirmed).
Micrathena horrida Levi, 1985a: 596, f. 774-783 (mf, S of Micrathena multituberculata, M. racemina and M. simoni).
Micrathena horrida Magalhaes & Santos, 2011b: 48 (S of Micrathena mastonota).
Micrathena horrida Magalhaes & Santos, 2012: 32, f. 15, 34 (mf).
References

Bonnet, P. (1957). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (3me partie: G-M). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 1927-3026. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1940). Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 86: 247-532. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Butler, A. G. (1873b). A list of the spiders of the genus Acrosoma. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41(2): 420-429. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1873.tb00505.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Caporiacco, L. di (1948a). Arachnida of British Guiana collected in 1931 and 1936 by Professors Beccari and Romiti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118(3): 607-747. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1948.tb00402.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Franganillo B., P. (1930). Arácnidos de Cuba: Mas arácnidos nuevos de la Isla de Cuba. Memorias del Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas 1: 47-99. [reprinted separately, pp. 1-55; only reprint seen and cited] 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

Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Santos, A. J. (2011b). Two new species and taxonomic notes on the Neotropical spiny orb-weaving spiders Micrathena and Chaetacis (Araneae: Araneidae), with remaks on the development of Micrathena excavata. Zootaxa 2983: 39-56. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2983.1.3 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 (1932a). Notas sobre ao Micratheneas do Brasil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 4: 73-97. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1940d). Aranhas do Espírito Santo coligidas por Mario Rosa, em 1936 e 1937. Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de Sao Paulo 2: 199-214. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1910). Some new or little known American Spiders. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 19: 205-224, pl. 21-22. 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

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1890a). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 57-72. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1904). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 465-560, pl. 44-51. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] 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

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