Gnaphosidae: Micaria Westring, 1851

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Femur I dark brown, distal half light yellow with black-brown spot, a bristle within (often broken off); male pedipalp with narrow cymbium, ventrally with 2 and basally with one bristle; retinaculum narrow; epigyne with a bent ridge; receptaculum seminis oval, ducts divergent; pedipalp femur very large

Micaria dives (Lucas, 1846)

- Femur I without black-brown spot on bright background; sexual organ different (cymbium only in subopaca with 2 distal bristles

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Chelicerae with long grey hairs and with conspicuously, mostly dense copper-coloured scale hairs

Micaria fulgens (Walckenaer, 1802)

- Chelicerae only with grey, bristle-like hairs

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Femur I and II distally with 2 bristles; male pedipalp with 1 or 2 small hump-shaped tibial apophysis; cymbium with 3 bristles; embolus very thick; retinaculum missing; epigyne without transverse ridge, medially with variable longitudinal bar

Micaria rossica Thorell, 1875

- Femur I and II mostly with one dorsal bristle (only in aenea with 2 bristles); male pedipalp with 1 or 2 larger tibial apophyses; epigyne different

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Tibial apophysis of male pedipalp dorsally bent; cymbium moderately long, distally with 4 bristles; embolus screw-like; retinaculum large; epigyne with glasses-like structure

Micaria guttulata (C. L. Koch, 1839)

- Different

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Femur I and II distally with 2 bristles; male pedipalp with reduced retinaculum; cymbium with 4 bristles; epigyne with large, anteriorly very broad groove

Micaria aenea Thorell, 1871

- Femur I and II with one dorsal bristle; retinaculum not reduced; epigyne different

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Cymbium distally with 3 bristles; epigyne with 2 shallow grooves, arcuately bordered or with one large groove and strongly sclerotised margin

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- Cymbium distally with 4 bristles; epigyne without or with small groove

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Femur III and IV with one distal bristle in basal half; male pedipalp as fig.; epigyne with large, deep groove, its anterior margin strongly sclerotised

Micaria alpina L. Koch, 1872

- Femur III and IV with 2 distal bristles; sexual organ different

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Male pedipalp with long and narrow tibial apophysis; embolus thick; distal retinaculum larger; epigyne with shallow groove and V-shaped structure (transverse ridges) in the centre

Micaria lenzi Bösenberg, 1899

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Male pedipalp with shorter tibial apophysis; embolus thin; retinaculum small, in the middle of bulbus; epigyne as fig.

Micaria silesiaca L. Koch, 1875

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Male pedipalp with 2 ± towering tibial apophysis; female tibia I and II ventrally with 1 or 2 bristles; sclerotised epigynal ridge very broad

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- Male pedipalp with 1 tibial apophysis, appressed on cymbium; female tibia I and II ventrally without (pulicaria) or with 3 or 5 pairs of bristles respectively; sclerotised epigynal ridge narrow

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Prosoma mostly distinctly red-brown (remove scale hairs), very elongated, 1.75-2.0 times as long as wide; opisthosoma ventrally without white longitudinal band, often with white dots; male pedipalp as fig.; position of cymbial bristles variable; epigyne with longish oval receptaculum seminis, reaching to transverse ridge at least

Micaria formicaria (Sundevall, 1831)

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Prosoma mostly black-brown (remove scale hairs), only 1.3-1.8 times as long as wide; opisthosoma ventrally with white longitudinal band (can be abraded); cymbial bristles variable; epigyne with egg-shaped receptaculum seminis, not reaching to transverse ridge

Micaria coarctata (Lucas, 1846)

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Male pedipalp with very elongated retinaculum; pedipalp tibia dorsally sometimes with hump; female tibia I and II ventrally without bristles

Micaria pulicaria (Sundevall, 1831)

- Male pedipalp with distinctly shorter retinaculum; female tibia I and II ventrally with 3 or 5-6 pairs of bristles

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Male pedipalp with very strongly bent embolus, without excrescence between embolus and retinaculum; female tibia I and II ventrally with 5-6 pairs of thin bristles; epigyne variable, with bent, mostly bipartite transverse ridge, without groove, posteriorly with sickle-shaped structure

Micaria nivosa L. Koch, 1866

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Embolus and retinaculum less bent, with a excrescence between embolus and retinaculum; female tibia I and II ventrally with 3 pairs of robust bristles; epigyne with a transverse ridge within a groove, posteriorly without sickle-shaped structure

Micaria albovittata (Lucas, 1846)

Further taxa

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1. Micaria belezma Bosmans, 2000

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2. Micaria bosmansi Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2008

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3. Micaria brignolii (Bosmans & Blick, 2000)

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4. Micaria constricta Emerton, 1894

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5. Micaria corvina Simon, 1878

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6. Micaria cyrnea Brignoli, 1983

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7. Micaria donensis Ponomarev & Tsvetkov, 2006

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8. Micaria funerea Simon, 1878

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9. Micaria gulliae Tuneva & Esyunin, 2003

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10. Micaria guttigera Simon, 1878

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11. Micaria ignea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

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12. Micaria kopetdaghensis Mikhailov, 1986

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13. Micaria marchesii (Caporiacco, 1936)

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14. Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)

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15. Micaria pallipes (Lucas, 1846)

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16. Micaria palmgreni Wunderlich, 1980

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17. Micaria sociabilis Kulczyński, 1897

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18. Micaria subopaca Westring, 1861

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19. Micaria triguttata Simon, 1884

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20. Micaria tripunctata Holm, 1978

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21. Micaria zonsteini (Mikhailov, 2016)