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

Micrathena necopinata Chickering, 1960

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015518

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia, Peru, Brazil

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Taxonomic References

Micrathena necopinata Chickering, 1960d: 84, f. 71-73 (Dm) Original description

Chaetacis necopinata Levi, 1985a: 612, f. 853-861 (m, Df, T from Micrathena)

Micrathena necopinata Magalhaes & Santos, 2012: 31 (T from Chaetacis)

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

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. (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

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