Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Micrathena

Micrathena sanctispiritus Brignoli, 1983

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2017-03-19
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045949]
  • Distribution: Brazil, Argentina
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Micrathena parallela Mello-Leitão, 1940, (54346); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Micrathena parallela Mello-Leitão, 1940d: 209 (Df; preoccupied by O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890, see Micrathena parallela) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056368].
Micrathena sanctispiritus Brignoli, 1983c: 249 (replacement name).
Micrathena guanabara Levi, 1985a: 505, f. 283-289 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016576].
Micrathena sanctispiritus Levi & Santos, 2013: 225, f. 5-6 (removed f from S of M. lindenbergi, contra Levi, 1985: 502, Sm).
References

Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. 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

Levi, H. W. & Santos, A. J. (2013). New synonymies and a revalidation in the spider genera Eustala and Micrathena (Araneae: Araneidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 30: 221-226. doi:10.1590/s1984-46702013000200013 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

External Resource References

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Date Type Reference Detail
2017-03-19 Species distribution update Magalhães et al., 2017 n/a (Old value)