Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Micrathena

Micrathena lepidoptera Mello-Leitão, 1941

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016589]
  • Distribution: Costa Rica to Colombia
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Micrathena lepidoptera Mello-Leitão, 1941, (07279); 1 f (probably destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Micrathena lepidoptera Mello-Leitão, 1941b: 266, f. 3 (Df).
Micrathena lepidoptera Levi, 1985a: 548, f. 525-533 (f, Dm).
References

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 (1941b). Catalogo das aranhas da Colombia. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 13: 233-300. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

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