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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Micaria  Westring, 1851   34 species

Micaria ignea  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025012

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Description

Male palp without tibial apophysis. Epigyne with anterior, transverse depression. Prosoma red-brown.

Body length male: 2-2.1 mm
Body length female: 2.2-5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Cape Verde, Canary Is., Algeria, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Yemen, Israel, Syria, Iran, Central Asia
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Chatzaki et al. 2002a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Chatzaki et al. 2002a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans & Blick 2000)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans & Blick 2000)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Chatzaki et al. 2002a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosmans & Blick 2000)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Chatzaki et al. 2002a)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans & Blick 2000)

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) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (Chatzaki & Van Keer, 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||
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, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 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

Chatzaki M, Thaler K, Mylonas M (2002a) Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae; Araneae) of Crete (Greece). Taxonomy and distribution. I. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 109: 559-601 pdf

Chatzaki M, Van Keer J (2019) Ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Liocranidae, Prodidomidae) from the Greek islands Rodos, Symi and Karpathos, with the description of new species. Zootaxa 4646: 434-460 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
01-04-2024 Distribution update Detail
25-07-2019 Distribution update Detail
17-12-2013 Image insert
10-12-2013 Image insert