Micrommata formosa Pavesi, 1878

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

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Described:

Distribution: Portugal, Spain, North Africa, Italy (Sicily), Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Syria


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Museo Civico Storia Naturale G. Doria, Genova (MCSNG), Italy jf - (Levy, 1989)
  • Holotype: Universidad de Salamanca, Collection Urones (USCU), Salamanca, Spain (Syn: Micrommata aragonensis) Micrommata aragonensis Urones, 2004, (20.02/13773); f -
  • Paratype: Universidad de Salamanca, Collection Urones (USCU), Salamanca, Spain (Syn: Micrommata aragonensis) Micrommata aragonensis Urones, 2004; 1f -
  • Paratype: Antonio Melic Private Collection, Spain (Syn: Micrommata aragonensis) Micrommata aragonensis Urones, 2004, (1130); 1f -
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1m ff (3231) of Micrommata ophthalmica - (Levy, 1989)
Taxonomic References
Micrommata formosa Pavesi, 1878: 348 (Dj) Original description
Micrommata ophthalmica Simon, 1880a: 285 (m)
Micrommata ophthalmica Simon, 1880f: 64 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054271]
Micrommata formosa Kulczyński, 1911a: 36, pl. 1, f. 38 (Dm)
Micrommata formosa Strand, 1913f: 160 (Df)
Micrommata formosum Levy, 1989: 165, f. 100-114 (mf, S of Micrommata ophthalmica, after Simon, 1897a: 62)
Micrommata aragonensis Urones, 2004: 44, f. 12-13 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040693]
Micrommata formosa Breitling, 2020: 356, f. 33A (f)
Micrommata formosa El-Hennawy & Al-Saraireh, 2021: 483, f. 2-11 (f)
Micrommata formosa Jäger, 2023: 18, f. 56-83 (mf, S of Micrommata aragonensis)
References

Breitling, R. (2020). South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18(4): 333-362. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.333 -- Show included taxa

El-Hennawy, H. K. & Al-Saraireh, M. (2021). Micrommata formosa in Jordan (Araneae: Sparassidae). Serket 17(4): 481-486. -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2023). Revision of the huntsman spider genus Micrommata Latreille, 1804 (Sparassidae: Sparassinae). Zootaxa 5352(1): 1-45. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5352.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1911a). Fragmenta Arachnologica. XVI, XVII. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1911: 12-75. -- Show included taxa

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(1): 127-176. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1989.tb02480.x -- Show included taxa

Pavesi, P. (1878). Nuovi risultati aracnologici delle Crociere del "Violante". Aggiunto un catalogo sistematico degli Aracnidi di Grecia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 11: 335-396. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1880a). Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 34(2/3/4): 223-351. [[issue 3 and 4 were published in 1881, but a complete seperate extract was available in 1880, see the last page of the pdf]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1880f). Description de Micrommata ophthalmica et de Cebrennus pulcherrimus, d'Algérie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 10(Bull.): 64-65. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1913f). Erste Mitteilung über Spinnen aus Palästina, gesammelt von Herrn Dr J. Aharoni. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 79(A10): 147-162. -- Show included taxa

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. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Gloor, D., Hänggi, A., Kropf, C.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 05.2018. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2023-10-02 Species distribution update Jäger, 2023 Old value
2023-10-02 New taxonomic reference entry Jäger, 2023
2023-10-02 Species synonymy Jäger, 2023 Micrommata aragonensis synonymized with Micrommata formosa
2021-05-25 New taxonomic reference entry El-Hennawy & Al-Saraireh, 2021
2021-05-25 Species distribution update El-Hennawy & Al-Saraireh, 2021 Old value
2020-03-24 New taxonomic reference entry Breitling, 2020
2020-03-24 Species distribution update Breitling, 2020 Old value

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