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

Micrathena pungens Walckenaer, 1841

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia to Bolivia

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Micrathena carvalhoi Mello-Leitão, 1944, (01451); 1 f (probably destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Plectana pungens Walckenaer, 1841: 173 (Df) Original description

Acrosoma pungens Keyserling, 1864: 72, pl. 2, f. 5 (f)

Acrosoma luctuosa Taczanowski, 1873: 267, pl. 5, f. 21 (Df)

Acrosoma pungens Keyserling, 1892: 29, pl. 1, f. 26 (f)

Micrathena pungens Simon, 1895a: 861

Micrathena luctuosa Petrunkevitch, 1911: 373

Micrathena pungens Reimoser, 1917: 134, pl. 8, f. 25 (f)

Micrathena carvalhoi Mello-Leitão, 1944a: 9 (Df)

Micrathena pungens Chickering, 1960d: 85, f. 76-79 (f, S)

Micrathena pungens Levi, 1985a: 598, f. 784-791 (f, Dm, S)

References

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 -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1864). Beschreibungen neuer und wenig bekannter Arten aus der Familie Orbitelae Latr. oder Epeiridae Sund. Sitzungs-Berichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden 1863: 63-98, 119-154, pl. 1-7. -- 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

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1944a). Algumas aranhas da região amazônica. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (N.S., Zool.) 25: 1-12. -- 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

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

Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.61095 [[not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837]] -- Show included taxa

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