Micrommata ligurina (C. L. Koch, 1845)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029080

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Described:

Distribution: Mediterranean


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Taxonomic References
Sparassus ligurinus C. L. Koch, 1845: 89, f. 1020 (Df) Original description
Sparassus pilosus Simon, 1870b: 342 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054274]
Micrommata ligurina Simon, 1874b: 273 (T from Sparassus, S of Sparassus pilosus)
Micrommata ligurina Simon, 1875a: 340 (m)
Micrommata ligurina Kulczyński, 1911a: 36, pl. 1, f. 41-42 (m)
Micrommata ligurina Simon, 1932: 892, 960, f. 1337-1338 (mf)
Micrommata ligurinum Levy, 1989: 168, f. 115-125 (mf)
Micrommata ligurina Urones, 2004: 46, f. 1-3, 14-17 (mf)
Micrommata ligurina Lecigne, 2013: 187, f. 5J-K (m)
Micrommata ligurina Hernández-Corral & Barrientos, 2022: 68, f. 6A-C (mf)
Micrommata ligurina Tutar & Yağmur, 2023: 217, f. 19A-B (f)
Micrommata ligurina Jäger, 2023: 24, f. 84-103 (mf)
Micrommata ligurica Wunderlich, 2025: 18, f. 29 (m, lapsus)
References

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. -- 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

Koch, C. L. (1845). Die Arachniden. Zwölfter Band. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, pp. 1-166, pl. 397-432 (f. 960-1077). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- 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

Lecigne, S. (2013). Contribution à l'inventaire aranéologique de Corfou (Grèce) (Arachnida, Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28: 177-191. -- 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

Simon, E. (1870b). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 3: 271-358. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1874b). Études arachnologiques. 3e mémoire. V. Révision des espèces européennes de la famille des Sparassidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 4: 243-279, pl. 5. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1875a). Les Arachnides de France. Tome seconde. Contenant les familles des Urocteidae, Agelenidae, Thomisidae et Sparassidae. Roret, Paris, 360 pp., pl. 4-8. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1932). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 4e partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 773-978. -- Show included taxa

Tutar, O. & Yağmur, E. A. (2023). Spider (Araneae) fauna of İzmir Peninsula (Çeşme, Karaburun, Urla), Türkiye. Serket 19(2): 197-222. -- 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

Wunderlich, J. (2025). New and rare spiders (Araneae) from the Algarve, Portugal. Beiträge zur Araneologie 18: 4-36, 162. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-09-28 New taxonomic reference entry Wunderlich, 2025
2024-08-02 New taxonomic reference entry Hernández-Corral & Barrientos, 2022
2023-10-02 Species distribution update Jäger, 2023 Old value
2023-10-02 New taxonomic reference entry Jäger, 2023
2023-10-02 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Micrommata biggi Jäger, 2023
2023-04-29 New taxonomic reference entry Tutar & Yağmur, 2023
2022-05-26 New taxonomic reference entry Zarikian, Propistsova & Marusik, 2022
2014-07-03 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, 2013

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