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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

"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.

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 (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail