Micrathena funebris (Marx, 1898)
| FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895 Genus: Micrathena Sundevall, 1833 Species: Micrathena funebris (Marx, 1898)  |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Point Collections & Seasonality
Global Distribution: USA to Costa Rica
Nearctic States & Provinces: 
AZ CA
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Seasonality
Specimen Search
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Natural History & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:† orb weavers
†Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280. PDF
Habitat (published): (not yet published or unknown)
Habitat (<30 randomly chosen specimens): Junipera foliage;
Life & Natural History: (not yet recorded or unknown)
Image(s) of Habitus: 
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Details About Males
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Details About Females
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Taxonomic References‡
Banks, N. 1900. Some new North American spiders. Canad. Ent. 32: 96-102.
Banks, N. 1898. Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proc. Californ. Acad. Sci. (3) 1: 205-308.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1904. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 465-560.
Chickering, A. M. 1961. The genus Micrathena (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Central America. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 125: 391-470.
Coddington, J. A. 1990. Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 496: 1-52.
Levi, H. W. 1985. The spiny orb-weaver genera Micrathena and Chaetacis (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 150: 429-618.
Levi, H. W. 1978. The American orb-weaver genera Colphepeira, Micrathena and Gasteracantha north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 148: 417-442.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greeland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791. 
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog
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