Taxon details


Micrathena swainsoni (Perty, 1833)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016629]
  • Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
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Taxonomic references
Acrosoma swainsonii Perty, 1833: 194, pl. 38, f. 10 (Df).
Acrosoma swainsoni C. L. Koch, 1839a: 121, f. 519 (f).
Micrathena prudens Simon, 1895a: 860 (Df).
Micrathena swainsoni Petrunkevitch, 1911: 379.
Micrathena swainsoni Reimoser, 1917: 99, pl. 3, f. 6 (f, Dm).
Micrathena paraguayensis Mello-Leitão, 1931c: 95 (Df).
Micrathena silvicola Badcock, 1932: 24, f. 19 (Dmf).
Micrathena swainsoni Mello-Leitão, 1946b: 39 (S).
Micrathena swainsoni Chickering, 1960d: 87, f. 83-90 (mf).
Micrathena swainsoni Levi, 1985a: 571, f. 638-645 (mf).
Micrathena swainsoni Magalhaes & Santos, 2012: 43, f. 40 (m).
References

Badcock, H. D. (1932). Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926–7, supported by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 38(257): 1-48. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb00987.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1960d). Six new species of Micrathena (Araneae, Argiopidae) from South America with notes on known species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 135(1): 65-89. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1960.tb05831.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1839a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Fünfter Band, pp. 125-158, pl. 175-180 (f. 418-431); Sechster Band, pp. 1-156, pl. 181-216 (f. 432-540); Siebenter Band, pp. 1-106, pl. 217-246 (f. 541-584). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 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

Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Santos, A. J. (2012). Phylogenetic analysis of Micrathena and Chaetacis spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) reveals multiple origins of extreme sexual size dimorphism and long abdominal spines. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166(1): 14-53. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00831.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1931c). Notas sobre arachnidos argentinos. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 3: 83-97. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1946b). Arañas del Paraguay. Notas del Museo de la Plata 11(Zool. 91): 17-50. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Perty, M. (1833). Arachnides Brasilienses. In: de Spix, J. B. & Martius, F. P. (eds.) Delectus animalium articulatorum quae in itinere per Braziliam ann. 1817 et 1820 colligerunt. Monachii [= München/Munich], pp. 191-209, pls. 38-39. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Reimoser, E. (1917). Die Spinnengattung Micrathena Sundevall. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 67: 73-160. 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

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