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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Micaria  Westring, 1851   35 species

Micaria triguttata Simon, 1884

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027578

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Description
Male

Prosoma moderately elongated. Chelicerae with 2 pro- and 1 retrolateral teeth. Opisthosoma with saddle-like constriction. Palp: tibial apophysis straight, embolus not screwed, cymbium with 4 bristles. Retinaculum narrow and elongated. Prosoma length: 1.4 mm, prosoma width: 1.0 mm.

Body length male: 2.85 mm
Female

Prosoma moderately elongated. Chelicerae with 2 pro- and 1 retrolateral teeth. Opisthosoma in basal half not distinctly lighter than in distal half. Leg I without black-brown spot on lighter ground. Tibia I-II ventrally with 5-6 pairs of bristles. Prosoma length: 1.2 mm, prosoma width: 1.0 mm.

Body length female: 2.6-3.35 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France, Algeria
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 1980h)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1980h)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Wunderlich 1980h)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1980h)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosmans & Blick 2000)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Ledoux et al. 2003)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R, Blick T (2000) Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Micaria in the West-palaearctic region, with description of the new genus Arboricaria and three new species (Araneae Gnaphosidae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 78: 443-476 pdf

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Ledoux J C, Raphaël B, Emerit M (2003) (unpublished). Araignées de la réserve naturelle de Jujols (Pyrénées Orientales). former link: http://revue-arachnologique.fr/lespdf/Jujols.pdf pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Wunderlich J (1980h) Revision der europäischen Arten der Gattung Micaria Westring 1851, mit Anmerkungen zu den übrigen paläarktischen Arten (Arachnida: Araneida: Gnaphosidae). Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 25: 233-341 pdf

Updates
05-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
20-10-2017 Image insert
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail