Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Micrathena

Micrathena fidelis (Banks, 1909)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016564]
  • Distribution: Costa Rica to Argentina
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Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Acrosoma fidelis Banks, 1909a: 212 (Df).
Micrathena fidelis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 370.
Micrathena cala Chamberlin, 1916: 261, pl. 20, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062591].
Micrathena fidelis Chickering, 1961a: 411, f. 46-49 (f).
Micrathena fidelis Levi, 1985a: 477, f. 136-143 (Dm, f, S of Micrathena cala, removed from S of Micrathena elongata, rejecting Mello-Leitão, 1941b: 266).
References

Banks, N. (1909a). Arachnida from Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 61: 194-234. 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

Chickering, A. M. (1961a). The genus Micrathena (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Central America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 125(13): 389-470. 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

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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