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

Micrathena lepidoptera Mello-Leitão, 1941

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016589

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Described:

Distribution: Costa Rica to Colombia

External Resources*: GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Micrathena lepidoptera Mello-Leitão, 1941, (07279); 1 f (probably destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Micrathena lepidoptera Mello-Leitão, 1941b: 266, f. 3 (Df) Original description

Micrathena lepidoptera Levi, 1985a: 548, f. 525-533 (f, 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

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941b). Catalogo das aranhas da Colombia. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 13: 233-300. -- Show included taxa

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