Taxon details
Micrathena militaris (Fabricius, 1775)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-10-23
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016596]
- Distribution: Greater Antilles
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- Holotype: ; Aranea militaris Fabricius, 1775 - type material probably lost or destroyed (Zimsen, 1964)
- Holotype: ; Aranea taurus Fabricius, 1793 - type material probably lost or destroyed (Zimsen, 1964)
- Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Acrosoma armatum C. L. Koch, 1845, (1291, 1291a–c)
Aranea armata Olivier, 1789: 205 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062582].
Aranea taurus Fabricius, 1793: 424 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062701].
Plectana militaris Walckenaer, 1841: 174.
Plectana furcata Walckenaer, 1841: 176 (Df, new name for Aranea armata Olivier and A. taurus; M. furcata is preoccupied by Hahn, 1822, see Micrathena furcata) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062702].
Plectana armata Walckenaer, 1841: 179.
Acrosoma armatum C. L. Koch, 1844: 65, f. 885 (f).
Acrosoma armatum Butler, 1873b: 421 (sensu Walckenaer and C. L. Koch).
Acrosoma militare Butler, 1873b: 423.
Micrathena armata Simon, 1895a: 852, f. 910 (f).
Micrathena militaris Petrunkevitch, 1911: 373.
Micrathena armata Petrunkevitch, 1911: 365 (S of Aranea taurus and Plectana furcata Walckenaer).
Micrathena militaris Petrunkevitch, 1926: 53, f. 12-15 (f).
Micrathena militaris Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 257, f. 108 (f).
Micrathena militaris Bryant, 1940: 376, f. 140, 145 (Dm, S of Micrathena armata; f f. 154 see Micrathena banksi).
Micrathena militaris Chickering, 1964: 269, f. 41-50 (mf).
Micrathena militaris Levi, 1985a: 563, f. 597-607 (mf).
Bryant, E. B. (1940). Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 86: 247-532. 
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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 -- Show included taxa
Chickering, A. M. (1964). The genus Micrathena (Araneae, Araneidae) in the West Indies. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 131(8): 251-281. -- Show included taxa
Fabricius, J. C. (1775). Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis, synonymis, locis descriptionibus observationibus. Libraria Kortii, Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae [= Kortensche Buchhandlung, Flensburg & Leipzig], 832 pp. (Araneae, pp. 431-441). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.36510 -- Show included taxa
Fabricius, J. C. (1793). Entomologiae systematica emendata et aucta, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tom. II. Christian Gottlieb Proft, Hafniae [= Copenhagen], 519 pp. [Aranea pp. 407-428]. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.122153 -- Show included taxa
Koch, C. L. (1844). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Elfter Band, pp. 1-174, pl. 361-396 (f. 850-959). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Olivier, G. A. (1789). Araignée, Aranea. In: Encyclopédie Méthodique, Histoire Naturelle, Insectes. Tome quatrième. Panckoucke, Paris, pp. 173-240. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.82248 -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Petrunkevitch, A. (1926). Spiders from the Virgin Islands. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 28: 21-78. -- Show included taxa
Petrunkevitch, A. (1930a). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 159-356. -- 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 -- Show included taxa
Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 -- Show included taxa
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