World Spider Catalog

Genus: Micrathena Sundevall, 1833 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Micrathena embira Levi, 1985

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016560

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia, Brazil

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Taxonomic References

Micrathena embira Levi, 1985a: 552, f. 551-555 (Df) Original description

Micrathena embira Magalhães et al., 2017: 23, f. 1E-F, 3-5, 9A-D (Dm)

References

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

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
2017-03-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Magalhães et al., 2017
2017-03-19	First description of male	Magalhães et al., 2017	Old value