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Gnaphosidae  Pocock, 1898 / Micaria  Westring, 1851   34 species

Micaria rossica  Thorell, 1875

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027567

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Description

Male palp with 1 or 2 small, hump-shaped tibial apophyses. Retinaculum absent. Cymbium with 3 bristles. Embolus very thick. Epigyne medially with variable longitudinal bar. Femur I and II distally with 2 bristles.

Body length male: 4 mm
Body length female: 3.9-5.3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2020): North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia, Mongolia, China
Figures
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male Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH), ventral view
(Platnick & Shadab 1988)

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male Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH)
(Platnick & Shadab 1988)

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male Pedipalp
(Pesarini 2000)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne (courtesy of the AMNH)
(Platnick & Shadab 1988)

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female Epigyne
(Pesarini 2000)

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female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Vulva (courtesy of the AMNH)
(Platnick & Shadab 1988)

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female Vulva
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

Distribution List
Austria   (no references) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2020) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| France   (no references) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 2002) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Liechtenstein   (no references) ||| North Macedonia   (no references) ||| Poland   (no references) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2020) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2019) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2019) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2019 [last updated 1 June 2019], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Pesarini C (2000) Contributo alla conoscenza della fauna araneologica italiana (Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 78: 379-393 pdf

Platnick N I, Shadab M U (1988) A revision of the American spiders of the genus Micaria (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates 2916: 1-64 pdf

Polchaninova N Y, Prokopenko E V (2013) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arthropoda Selecta (Suppl.) 2: 1-268 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (2002) On the nature of agrobiont spiders. Journal of Arachnology 30: 389-402 pdf

World Spider Catalog (2020) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.03.2020) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
22-07-2020 Distribution update Detail
25-04-2015 Distribution update Detail