Micaria
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Ordo: Araneae
Familia: Gnaphosidae
Name
Micaria Westring, 1851 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Remarks
Type species. Micaria fulgens (Walckenaer, 1802), originally described as Aranea fulgens.
Diagnosis
Gnaphosids of the “Micaria-group” (Murphy 2007[1]), differing from Arboricaria by the more or less ovoid, posteriorly not truncate sternum in both sexes, the ovoid, not bulging bulbus with a mostly present median apophysis, the palpal tibial apophysis, sometimes poorly expressed, not bifid in males, the epigynal groove in females, if present, without distinctly chitinized posterior margins.
Composition
101 species (WSC 2015[2]).
Distribution
Holarctic. Other records require confirmation.
An analysis of the new Micaria species described from the Palaearctic since Bosmans and Blick (2000)[3], all listed in WSC (2015)[2], shows no match with Arboricaria characters. Therefore, despite the previous neglect of Arboricaria, no new species of this genus have been described within Micaria sensu lato since 2000. In addition, all extra-Holarctic records of Micaria are doubtful; these species most likely belonging to other genera or even families (Murphy 2007[1]).
Taxon Treatment
- Mikhailov, K; 2016: On the spider genus Arboricaria with the description of a new species (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) ZooKeys, (558): 153-169. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Murphy J (2007) Gnaphosid genera of the World. British Arachnological Society, Vol. 1, 92 pp.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 World Spider Catalog (2015) World Spider Catalog. Version 16. Natural History Museum Bern. http://wsc.nmbe.ch [accessed on 15.05.2015]
- ↑ 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 delle Società Entomologica Italiana 78 (for 1999) (2): 443–476.
