Micrathena horrida Taczanowski, 1873

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Described:

Distribution: Greater Antilles, Mexico to Argentina

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) f (58345, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Micrathena mastonota -
  • Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 3f (078, 079, 080) of Micrathena multituberculata - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Taxonomic References
Acrosoma horrida Taczanowski, 1873: 281, pl. 6, f. 31 (Df) Original description
Acrosoma mammillatum Butler, 1873b: 427 (Df)
Acrosoma raceminum Butler, 1873b: 427 (Df)
Acrosoma longicauda O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890a: 61, pl. 8, f. 9 (Dm)
Acrosoma longicauda Keyserling, 1892: 15, pl. 1, f. 11 (m)
Micrathena horrida Simon, 1895a: 851, f. 898, 919 (f)
Micrathena mammillata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 529
Micrathena longicauda F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 530, pl. 50, f. 5 (m)
Micrathena horrida Petrunkevitch, 1910: 212, pl. 21, f. 9-11 (f)
Micrathena simoni Petrunkevitch, 1910: 213 (D)
Micrathena racemina Petrunkevitch, 1911: 376
Micrathena horrida Reimoser, 1917: 85, pl. 2, f. 2 (f)
Micrathena horrida Mello-Leitão, 1932a: 79, f. 2a
Micrathena mammillata Bryant, 1940: 374, f. 142, 147, 155 (mf)
Micrathena mastonota Mello-Leitão, 1940d: 209 (Df)
Micrathena multituberculata Caporiacco, 1947a: 25 (Df)
Micrathena multituberculata Caporiacco, 1948a: 665, f. 75-78 (f)
Micrathena horrida Chickering, 1961a: 424, f. 83-88 (mf, S of Micrathena longicauda)
Micrathena horrida Levi, 1985a: 596, f. 774-783 (mf, S of Micrathena multituberculata and M. racemina)
Micrathena horrida Magalhaes & Santos, 2011b: 48 (S)
Micrathena horrida Magalhaes & Santos, 2012: 32, f. 15, 34 (mf)
References

Bryant, E. B. (1940). Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 86: 247-532. -- Show included taxa

Butler, A. G. (1873b). A list of the spiders of the genus Acrosoma. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41(2): 420-429. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1873.tb00505.x -- Show included taxa

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

Chickering, A. M. (1961a). The genus Micrathena (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Central America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 125(13): 389-470. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1892). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 1-208. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- 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

Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Santos, A. J. (2011b). Two new species and taxonomic notes on the Neotropical spiny orb-weaving spiders Micrathena and Chaetacis (Araneae: Araneidae), with remaks on the development of Micrathena excavata. Zootaxa 2983: 39-56. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2983.1.3 -- 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 -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1932a). Notas sobre ao Micratheneas do Brasil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 4: 73-97. -- 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. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1910). Some new or little known American Spiders. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 19: 205-224, pl. 21-22. -- 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. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1890a). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 57-72. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- 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]] -- Show included taxa

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

Simon, E. (1895a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 761-1084. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1873). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 9: 113-150, 261-286. [[pdf includes Taczanowski, 1872]] -- Show included taxa

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