World Spider Catalog

Genus: Araneus Clerck, 1757 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Araneus taperae Mello-Leitão, 1937

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015232

Permalink: https://wsc.psbrands-services.de/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015232

Described:

Distribution: Ecuador to Suriname

External Resources*: GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Metepeira taperae Mello-Leitão, 1937, (01310); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Metepeira taperae Mello-Leitão, 1937a: 7, f. 8 (Df) Original description

Araneus taperae Levi, 1991a: 212, f. 105-108 (Tf from Metepeira)

References

Levi, H. W. (1991a). The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152(4): 167-315. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1937a). Aranhas novas ou raras. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 9: 1-12. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

No logging data available so far.