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Genus: Micaria Westring, 1851 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Micaria corvina Simon, 1878

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026611

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Described:

Distribution: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Israel

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Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1m (Ar 2148) - (Levy, 2002)

Taxonomic References

Micaria corvina Simon, 1878a: 23 (Dm) Original description

Aphantaulax corvina Reimoser, 1919: 171

Micaria corvina Levy, 2002: 125, f. 34-44 (m, Df, T from Aphantaulax)

Micaria corvina Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025: 60, f. 34A-D (f)

References

Lecigne, S., Moutaouakil, S. & Lips, J. (2025). Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184. -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (2002). Spiders of the genera Micaria and Aphantaulax (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 48: 111-134. -- Show included taxa

Reimoser, E. (1919). Katalog der echten Spinnen (Araneae) des Paläarktischen Gebietes. Abhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 10(2): 1-280. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1878a). Les arachnides de France. Tome quatrième, contenant la famille des Drassidae. Roret, Paris, 334 pp., pl. 14-16. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-04-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025
2025-04-07	Species distribution update	Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025	Old value