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Sparassidae  Bertkau, 1872 / Micrommata  Latreille, 1804   5 species

Micrommata formosa Pavesi, 1878

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029078

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Description
Male

Prosoma with deep brown, broad longitudinal band in median part, bordererd by light lines, sides light brown. Prosoma length: 3.2-3.7 mm. Legs light brown.Opisthosoma green, dorsum with a reddish brown median band.

Body length male: 6.7-8.1 mm
Female

Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 3.7-4.4 mm.

Body length female: 9.0-12.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, North Africa, Italy (Sicily), Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Syria
Figures
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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levy 1989)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1989)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1989)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Jäger 2023)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Jäger 2023)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Jäger 2023)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Jäger 2023)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Jäger 2023)

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male Bulbus, prolateral view
(Levy 1989)

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male Bulbus, ventral view
(Levy 1989)

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male Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Levy 1989)

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male Embolic division, ventral view
(Jäger 2023)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1989)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Levy 1989)

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male Eyes, dorsal view
(Levy 1989)

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male Eyes, frontal view
(Levy 1989)

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male Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1989)

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female Epigyne
(Urones 2004)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1989)

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female Epigyne, lifted, posterior view
(Levy 1989)

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female Epigyne
(Breitling 2020)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Jäger 2023)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Jäger 2023)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Jäger 2023)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Jäger 2023)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Jäger 2023)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Jäger 2023)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Jäger 2023)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Hernández-Corral & Barrientos 2022)

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female Vulva
(Urones 2004)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1989)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Jäger 2023)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Jäger 2023)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Jäger 2023)

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female Spermatheca, lateral view
(Levy 1989)

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female Habitus, dorsal view
(Jäger 2023)

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female Habitus, dorsal view
(Jäger 2023)

Distribution List
Algeria   (Simon, 1885a; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Libya   (Caporiacco, 1934; Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Portugal   (Jäger, 2023) ||| Spain   (Breitling, 2020; Hernández-Corral & Barrientos, 2022) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
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, 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

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

Caporiacco L di (1934) Missione zoologica del Dott. E. Festa in Cirenaica. Aracnidi. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 44: 121-146 pdf

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 pdf

Hernández-Corral J, Barrientos J A (2022) Arácnidos (Arachnida) de los arenales no Costeros de Almorxó, Pruna, Peñarrubia y Zafra (Alicante, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 41: 63-74 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

Jäger P (2023) Revision of the huntsman spider genus Micrommata Latreille, 1804 (Sparassidae: Sparassinae). Zootaxa 5352: 1-45 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Levy G (1989) The family of huntsman spiders in Israel with annotations on species of the Middle East (Araneae: Sparassidae). Journal of Zoology, London 217: 127-176 pdf

Simon E (1885a) Etudes sur les Arachnides recueillis en Tunisie en 1883 et 1884 par MM. A. Letourneux, M. Sédillot et Valéry Mayet, membres de la mission de l'Exploration scientifique de la Tunisie. In: Exploration scientifique de la Tunisie, publiée sous les auspices du Ministère de l'instruction publique. Zoologie – Arachnides. Paris, 55 pp. pdf

Urones, C (2004) El género Micrommata (Araneae, Sparassidae) en la Península Ibérica, con la descripción do dos nuevas especies. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 10: 41-52 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

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