Skip to main content

MCZ Invertebrate Zoology 23024

Araneus selva Levi, 1991

Holotype of Araneus selva

Date Collected:

1978-01

Central America: Costa Rica: Heredia | Finca La Selva, near Puerto Viejo

Current Identification
Araneus selva Levi, 1991
Animalia Arthropoda Arachnida Araneae Araneidae
Determiner: Herbert W. Levi
Nature of ID: type ID

Levi 1991, page 259, Holotype of Araneus selva Levi, 1991 1991. Bull. MCZ 152(4): p. 259, fig. 335-338, map 5

  • field number: 1262

Part Condition Disposition Count
partial animal: tissue (70% ethanol) good in collection 1 History (5)
Remarks: leg: L III; subsampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2021-04-08
subsampled by=Laura Leibensperger   determined date=2021-02-16   determined by=Laura Leibenspergerlinked data icon   remark=L III  
whole animal (70% ethanol) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: Leg L III removed for eventual transfer to CRYO Coll. 16.II.2021.

Attribute Value Determination On
sex female [no agent data]
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Adam J. Baldinger 2021-04-05

  • None

  • None

  • None

  • Continent:
  • Central America
  • Country:
  • Costa Rica
  • State/Province:
  • Heredia
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/1001294 linked data icon
  • Specific Locality:
  • Finca La Selva, near Puerto Viejo
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • COSTA RICA, Heredia, Finca La Selva, near Puerto Viejo
  • Elevation:
  • 50 m
  • Georeference:
  • 10.4251110, -84.021195 (Error radius: 3036m) By: [no agent data] on 2015-06-26 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1978-01-01 / 1978-01-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 1/1978
  • Collector:
  • William G. Eberhard

  • None

  • None

  • [Masked]