Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Metepeira

Metepeira compsa (Chamberlin, 1916)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016501]
  • Distribution: Puerto Rico to Argentina
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Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Araneus compsa Chamberlin, 1916: 252, pl. 19, f. 6 (Df).
Metepeira virginensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942a: 70, f. 188-190 (Dmf).
Metepeira latigyna Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942a: 70, f. 191-192 (Df).
Metepeira compsa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942a: 71, f. 193-195 (Tf from Araneus, Dm).
Metepeira perezi Archer, 1965b: 132, f. 14, 16 (Dmf).
Metepeira vaurieorum Archer, 1965b: 133, f. 15, 19 (Dmf).
Metepeira vaurieorum Lopez, 1993: 10, f. 11 (m).
Metepeira compsa Piel, 2001: 48, f. 5, 129-140 (mf, S).
References

Archer, A. F. (1965b). Nuevos argiopidos (arañas) de las Antilles. Caribbean Journal of Science 5: 129-133. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1916). Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. The Arachnida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60: 177-299, pl. 1-25. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1942a). A hundred new species of American spiders. Bulletin of the University of Utah 32(13): 1-117. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lopez, A. (1993). Les araignées de la Guadeloupe: Genres Metepeira, Cyclosa et Argiope (Araneidae). Bulletin de la Societé des Sciences Naturelles, Venette-Compiègne 77: 9-16. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Piel, W. H. (2001). The systematics of Neotropical orb-weaving spiders in the genus Metepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 157: 1-92. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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