Taxon details


Micrathena militaris (Fabricius, 1775)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016596]
  • Distribution: Greater Antilles
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: ; Aranea militaris Fabricius, 1775 - type material probably lost or destroyed (Zimsen, 1964)
  • Holotype: ; Aranea taurus Fabricius, 1793 - type material probably lost or destroyed (Zimsen, 1964)
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Acrosoma armatum C. L. Koch, 1845, (1291, 1291a–c)
Taxonomic references
Aranea militaris Fabricius, 1775: 416 (Df).
Aranea armata Olivier, 1789: 205 (Df).
Aranea taurus Fabricius, 1793: 424 (Df).
Plectana militaris Walckenaer, 1841: 174.
Plectana furcata Walckenaer, 1841: 176.
Plectana armata Walckenaer, 1841: 179.
Acrosoma armatum C. L. Koch, 1844: 65, f. 885 (f).
Acrosoma furcata Butler, 1873b: 421.
Acrosoma militare Butler, 1873b: 423.
Micrathena armata Simon, 1895a: 852, f. 910 (f).
Micrathena militaris Petrunkevitch, 1911: 373.
Micrathena militaris Petrunkevitch, 1926: 53, f. 12-15 (f).
Micrathena militaris Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 257, f. 108 (f).
Micrathena militaris Bryant, 1940: 376, f. 140, 145 (Dm, S; not f, = M. banksi).
Micrathena militaris Chickering, 1964: 269, f. 41-50 (mf).
Micrathena militaris Levi, 1985a: 563, f. 597-607 (mf).
References

Bryant, E. B. (1940). Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 86: 247-532. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Butler, A. G. (1873b). A list of the spiders of the genus Acrosoma. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41(2): 420-429. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1873.tb00505.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1964). The genus Micrathena (Araneae, Araneidae) in the West Indies. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 131(8): 251-281. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Fabricius, J. C. (1775). Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis, synonymis, locis descriptionibus observationibus. Libraria Kortii, Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae [= Kortensche Buchhandlung, Flensburg & Leipzig], 832 pp. (Araneae, pp. 431-441). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.36510 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Fabricius, J. C. (1793). Entomologiae systematica emendata et aucta, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tom. II. Christian Gottlieb Proft, Hafniae [= Copenhagen], 519 pp. [Aranea pp. 407-428]. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.122153 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1844). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Elfter Band, pp. 1-174, pl. 361-396 (f. 850-959). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 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

Olivier, G. A. (1789). Araignée, Aranea. In: Encyclopédie Méthodique, Histoire Naturelle, Insectes. Tome quatrième. Panckoucke, Paris, pp. 173-240. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.82248 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

Petrunkevitch, A. (1926). Spiders from the Virgin Islands. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 28: 21-78. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1930a). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 159-356. 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

Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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