Micrathena

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Araneoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Araneidae
Subfamilia: Micratheninae
Genus: Micrathena
Species: M. acuta – M. agriliformis – M. alvarengai – M. anchicaya – M. annulata – M. armigera – M. atuncela – M. balzapamba – M. bananal – M. banksi – M. beta – M. bicolor – M. bifida – M. bimucronata – M. bogota – M. brevipes – M. brevispina – M. cicuta – M. clypeata – M. coca – M. cornuta – M. coroico – M. crassa – M. crassispina – M. cubana – M. cyanospina – M. decorata – M. digitata – M. donaldi – M. duodecimspinosa – M. elongata – M. embira – M. evansi – M. excavata – M. exlinae – M. fidelis – M. fissispina – M. flaveola – M. forcipata – M. funebris – M. furcata – M. furcula – M. furva – M. gaujoni – M. glyptogonoides – M. gracilis – M. guanabara – M. guayas – M. guerini – M. gurupi – M. hamifera – M. horrida – M. huanuco – M. jundiai – M. kirbyi – M. kochalkai – M. lata – M. lenca – M. lepidoptera – M. lindenbergi – M. lucasi – M. macfarlanei – M. margerita – M. marta – M. miles – M. militaris – M. mitrata – M. molesta – M. nigrichelis – M. ornata – M. parallela – M. patruelis – M. peregrinatorum – M. perfida – M. petrunkevitchi – M. pichincha – M. pilaton – M. plana – M. pungens – M. pupa – M. quadriserrata – M. raimondi – M. reali – M. reimoseri – M. rubicundula – M. rufopunctata – M. saccata – M. sagittata – M. sanctispiritus – M. schenkeli – M. schreibersi – M. sexspinosa – M. shealsi – M. similis – M. soaresi – M. spinosa – M. spinulata – M. spitzi – M. striata – M. stuebeli – M. swainsoni – M. teresopolis – M. triangularispinosa – M. triangularis – M. triserrata – M. tziscao – M. ucayali – M. vigorsi – M. woytkowskii – M. yanomami – M. zilchi

Name

Micrathena Sundevall, 1833

Type species: Micrathena clypeata Walckenaer, 1805

Synonyms

Ildibaha Keyserling, 1892
Thaumastobella Mello-Leitão, 1945

References

Magalhães, I.L.F., Martins, P.H., Nogueira, A.A. & Santos, A.J. 2017. Finding hot singles: matching males to females in dimorphic spiders (Araneidae: Micrathena) using phylogenetic placement and DNA barcoding. Invertebrate Systematics 31(1): 8-36. DOI: 10.1071/IS15062. Reference page.
Magalhães, I.L.F.; Santos, A.J. 2011: Two new species and taxonomic notes on the Neotropical spiny orb-weaving spiders Micrathena and Chaetacis (Araneae: Araneidae), with remarks on the development of Micrathena excavata. Zootaxa, 2983: 39–56. Preview

Additional references

de Alvarenga, A. da S., Magalhães, I.L.F., da Fonseca, R.N. & Pérez-González, A. 2020. Rectifying the identities of the males of two Micrathena species (Araneae: Araneidae), with report of the first case of intersexuality in the genus. Zootaxa 4808(1): 151–164. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.9 Reference page.
McHugh, A., Yablonsky, C., Binford, G. & Agnarsson, I. 2014. Molecular phylogenetics of Caribbean Micrathena (Araneae: Araneidae) suggests multiple colonisation events and single island endemism. Invertebrate systematics 28(4): 337–349. DOI: 10.1071/IS13051 . Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names

English: Micrathena