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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Micaria  Westring, 1851   35 species

Micaria funerea Simon, 1878

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027524

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Description
Male

Leg I without black-brown spot distal-prolateral on light ground. Palp: cymbium with 4 bristles. Tibia mostly with one apophysis, rarely with two, distal apophysis slender and straight. Retinaculum positioned in longitudinal axis of bulb. Prosoma length: 2.0 mm, prosoma width: 1.4 mm.

Body length male: 4.3 mm
Female

Femur I-II dorsally with one basal bristle, III-IV dorsally with 2 two bristles. Tibia I-II ventrally without long bristles, only with scopula. Epigyne: with blackened anterior margin with sharp lateral edges and pointing partially to openings of Vulva. Two paramedian, parallel longitudinal ridges, strongly sclerotized. Prosoma length: 1.5 mm, prosoma width: 1.1 mm.

Body length female: 4.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France (Corsica), Bulgaria, Russia (Caucasus)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Simon 1932)

species

female Epigyne
(Simon 1932)

Distribution List
Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 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

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

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

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

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Simon E (1932) Les arachnides de France 6 (4). Paris (Roret): 773-978 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail