Micrathena beta Caporiacco, 1947

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041293

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Described:

Distribution: Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru

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  • Holotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy m (076) - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Taxonomic References
Micrathena beta Caporiacco, 1947a: 26 (Dm; N.B.: transferred to Linyphiidae insertae sedis by Levi, 1985: 446) Original description
Micrathena beta Caporiacco, 1948a: 668, f. 81 (m)
Micrathena triangularispinosa Levi, 1985a: 537, f. 472 (f) [misidentified after Magalhaes et al., 2017: 21]
Micrathena lata Dierkens, 2011d: 101, f. 36, 44-45 (m) [misidentified after Magalhaes et al., 2017: 21]
Micrathena beta Levi & Santos, 2013: 223, f. 2-4 (m)
Micrathena beta Magalhães et al., 2017: 21, f. 2A, 3, 5, 7D-E, 8A-E (m, Df)
References

Caporiacco, L. di (1947a). Diagnosi preliminari de specie nuove di aracnidi della Guiana Brittanica raccolte dai professori Beccari e Romiti. Monitore Zoologico Italiano 56: 20-34. -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1948a). Arachnida of British Guiana collected in 1931 and 1936 by Professors Beccari and Romiti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118(3): 607-747. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1948.tb00402.x -- Show included taxa

Dierkens, M. (2011d). Contribution à l'étude des Araneidae de la Guyane française 1: Gasteracanthinae. Cahiers Musée des Confluences - Études scientifiques 2: 99-108. -- 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

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 -- Show included taxa

Magalhaes, I. L. F., Martins, P. H., Nogueira, A. A. & Santos, A. J. (2017). Finding hot singles: matching males to females in dimorphic spiders (Araneidae: Micrathena) using phylogenetic placement and DNA barcoding. Invertebrate Systematics 31(1): 8-36. doi: 10.1071/IS15062 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2017-03-20 Species distribution update Old value
2017-03-19 New taxonomic reference entry Levi, 1985a
2017-03-19 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Magalhães et al., 2017 Old value
2017-03-19 First description of female Magalhães et al., 2017 Old value
2017-03-19 New taxonomic reference entry Magalhães et al., 2017
2017-03-19 Species distribution update Magalhães et al., 2017 Old value

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