Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Micrathena

Micrathena lata Chickering, 1960

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2020-07-01
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016587]
  • Distribution: Brazil, Argentina
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; f (21788) (Alvarenga et al., 2020)
Taxonomic references
Micrathena lata Chickering, 1960b: 5, f. 8-12 (Df).
Micrathena lata Levi, 1985a: 565, f. 608-612 (f, m f. 613-615 see Micrathena perfida).
Micrathena lata Alvarenga et al., 2020: 160, f. 4B-C, 6A-G (m).
References

Alvarenga, A. da Silva de, Magalhaes, I. L. F., Fonseca, R. N. da & Pérez-González, A. (2020). Rectifying the identities of the males of two Micrathena species (Araneae: Araneidae), with report of the first case of intersexuality in the genus. Zootaxa 4808(1): 151-164. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.9 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1960b). Three new species of Micrathena (Araneae, Argiopidae) from South America. Breviora 121: 1-11. 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

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2020-07-01 New taxonomic reference entry Alvarenga et al., 2020 n/a
2017-03-20 Species distribution update n/a (Old value)
2017-03-19 Taxonomic reference update n/a (Old value)
2017-03-19 Species distribution update Magalhães et al., 2017 n/a (Old value)
2017-03-19 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Magalhães et al., 2017 Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micrathena beta Caporiacco, 1947