Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Micrathena

Micrathena bicolor (Keyserling, 1864)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2017-03-19
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016541]
  • Distribution: Colombia, Peru
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Micrathena caucaensis Strand, 1908, 1 f (3986-118)
Taxonomic references
Acrosoma bicolor Keyserling, 1864: 73, pl. 2, f. 6 (Df).
Acrosoma bicolor Keyserling, 1892: 20, pl. 1, f. 16 (f).
Micrathena bicolor Simon, 1895a: 861.
Micrathena caucaensis Strand, 1908c: 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062594].
Micrathena bicolor Chickering, 1960d: 67, f. 4-7 (f).
Micrathena bicolor Levi, 1985a: 534, f. 448-452 (f, S of Micrathena caucaensis, m f. 453-455 see Micrathena yanomami).
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 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1892). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 1-208. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1895a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 761-1084. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908c). Diagnosen neuer aussereuropäischer Argiopiden. Zoologischer Anzeiger 33: 1-4. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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2017-03-19 Taxonomic reference update n/a (Old value)