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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Micaria  Westring, 1851   35 species

Micaria kopetdaghensis Mikhailov, 1986

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027536

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Description
Male

Prosoma and sternum brown. Prosoma length: 1.15-2.05 mm, prosoma width: 0.89-1.41 mm. Legs: femora dark brown, remaining segments paler. Opisthosoma dark grey, with 2 transverse stripes.

Female

Prosoma length: 1.39-1.75 mm, prosoma width: 0.98-1.26 mm. Colouration as in males.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Iran, Turkmenistan
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Mikhailov 1988)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Mikhailov 1988)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Mikhailov 1988)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Mikhailov 1988)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Mikhailov 1988)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Mikhailov 1988)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Mikhailov 1988)

Distribution List
Armenia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Ponomarev & Komarov, 2015; Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) |||
References

Mikhailov K G (1988) Contribution to the spider fauna of the genus Micaria Westring, 1851 of the USSR. I (Aranei, Gnaphosidae). Spixiana 10: 219-334 pdf

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

Ponomarev A V, Komarov Y E (2015) Spiders (Aranei) of the Republic of South Ossetia. The South of Russia: Ecology, Development 10(1): 116-147 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

Updates
20-09-2023 Distribution update Detail
20-09-2023 Distribution insert Detail
17-12-2013 Datasheet update Detail
17-12-2013 Image insert