Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Micrathena

Micrathena mitrata (Hentz, 1850)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016597]
  • Distribution: USA to Brazil
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Micrathena patruelis luteomaculata Strand, 1908, 1 f (3994-118)
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Micrathena patruelis mediovittata Strand, 1908, 2 f (3995-118)
Taxonomic references
Epeira mitrata Hentz, 1850: 22, pl. 3, f. 11 (Df).
Acrosoma peruana Taczanowski, 1879: 116, pl. 1, f. 32 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062656].
Acrosoma mitrata Emerton, 1884: 327, pl. 38, f. 9 (f).
Acrosoma reduvianum McCook, 1894: 213, pl. 21, f. 6-6c, 7-7b (mf; misidentified per Chickering, 1961a: 435).
Micrathena peruana Simon, 1895a: 861.
Acrosoma mitrata Emerton, 1902: 189, f. 438 (f).
Micrathena mitrata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 538 (m).
Micrathena patruelis luteomaculata Strand, 1908c: 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062653].
Micrathena patruelis mediovittata Strand, 1908c: 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062654].
Micrathena mitrata Chickering, 1961a: 435, f. 110-116 (mf).
Micrathena mitrata Levi, 1978a: 428, f. 28-40 (mf).
Micrathena mitrata Levi, 1985a: 486, f. 188, 192-198, pl. 3 (mf, S of Micrathena patruelis luteomaculata, M. patruelis mediovittata and M. peruana).
Micrathena mitrata Dondale et al., 2003: 148, f. 307-313 (mf).
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

Dondale, C. D., Redner, J. H., Paquin, P. & Levi, H. W. (2003). The insects and arachnids of Canada. Part 23. The orb-weaving spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Uloboridae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae, Theridiosomatidae). NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 371 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1884). New England spiders of the family Epeiridae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 295-342. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1902). The common spiders of the United States. Boston, 225 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.5617 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1850). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 6: 18-35, 271-295. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1978a). The American orb-weaver genera Colphepeira, Micrathena and Gasteracantha north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 148: 417-442. 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

McCook, H. C. (1894). American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States with special regard to their industry and habits. Vol. III. Philadelphia, 285 pp., 30 pls. [for the year see p. 9] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2681 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

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

Strand, E. (1908c). Diagnosen neuer aussereuropäischer Argiopiden. Zoologischer Anzeiger 33: 1-4. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1879). Les aranéides du Pérou central (suite). Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 15(1): 102-136, pl. 1-2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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