World Spider Catalog

Genus: Paraverrucosa Mello-Leitão, 1939 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Paraverrucosa heteracantha Mello-Leitão, 1943

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017117

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Argentina

External Resources*: GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Actinosoma heteracanthum Mello-Leitão, 1943, (42468); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Paratype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Actinosoma heteracanthum Mello-Leitão, 1943, (42514); 1 j (survived the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Actinosoma heteracanthum Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 174, f. 15, 15a (Df) Original description

Wagneriana heteracantha Levi, 1991b: 394, f. 105-109 (Tf from Actinosoma, Dm)

Paraverrucosa heteracantha Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020: 1037, f. 44C-D, 58F, 66D, 86E-F, 100C-D, 103E, 121A-B (mf, T from Wagneriana)

References

Cabra-García, J. & Hormiga, G. (2020). Exploring the impact of morphology, multiple sequence alignment and choice of optimality criteria in phylogenetic inference: a case study with the Neotropical orb-weaving spider genus Wagneriana (Araneae: Araneidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188(4): 976-1151. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz088 -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1991b). The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Edricus and Wagneriana (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152: 363-415. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1943a). Catálogo das aranhas do Rio Grande do Sul. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 37: 147-245, 24 pls. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2020-04-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020
2020-04-02	Species transferred to new genus	Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020		Species transferred from Wagneriana to Paraverrucosa