Micaria micans Blackwall, 1858

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051639

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Described:

Distribution: Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Central Asia

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK m (jar 590b) [one of 2m is the holotype] - (Muster & Michalik, 2020)
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944 f of Micaria similis - (Renner, 1988b)
Taxonomic References
Drassus micans Blackwall, 1858a: 430 (Dm) Original description
Micaria nitens Westring, 1861: 336 (f; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Drassus micans Blackwall, 1861a: 118, pl. 6, f. 72 (m)
Macaria nitens Ohlert, 1867: 104 (Df; belongs to micans with ? per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Menge, 1872: 325, pl. 57, f. 186 (mf; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1897: 257, pl. 10, f. 22, 32, 34 (mf; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria similis Bösenberg, 1902: 285, pl. 27, f. 418 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051640]
Micaria pulicaria Charitonov, 1926c: 105, pl. 5, f. 3 (f; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Simon, 1932: 953, 976, f. 1486-1487 (mf; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Reimoser, 1937a: 92, f. 88, 97 (mf; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Tullgren, 1946: 62, f. 18C, pl. 10, f. 125, 129-130 (mf; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Locket & Millidge, 1951: 119, f. 62B, 63A, B, G (mf; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Brændegaard, 1966: 140, f. 117-118 (mf; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Miller, 1967: 278, pl. VIII, f. 16 (f; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Miller, 1971: 110, pl. XIII, f. 6 (f; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Wozny, 1973: 53, f. 2 (f; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Holm, 1978: 70, f. 6-9 (mf; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Wunderlich, 1980h: 252, f. 3a-b, d-e, 16a-g, 38a-b, d (mf; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 436, f. 1146 (mf; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Noordam, 1992: fig. 15 ad part (mf; partly misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Agnarsson, 1996: 35, f. 14A-B (mf; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Almquist, 2006: 438, f. 378a-b, g (mf; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Tuneva, 2007: 239, f. 61-63 (mf; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1)
Micaria pulicaria Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2008: 229, f. 86, 91-95, 99-104, 108-109 (mf; misidentified per Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1).
Micaria micans Muster & Michalik, 2020: Appendix S1: 1, f. 2a-c, 3a-d, 4a-c (mf, removed from S of Micaria pulicaria, S of Micaria similis)
Micaria micans Dolejš, 2020: 14, 1 f. (m)
Micaria micans Gallon, 2021: 7, f. 1-2 (f)
Micaria micans Nolan, 2021: 57, pl. 1-2 (m)
Micaria micans Ponomarev, Prokopenko & Shmatko, 2023: 50, f. 1-3, 6-7, 9-10, 13-14 (mf)
Micaria micans Sammet et al., 2023: 1032, f. 4A (f)
Micaria micans Langraf et al., 2024: 225, f. 3A-C (f)
References

Agnarsson, I. (1996). Íslenskar köngulær. Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar 31: 1-175. -- Show included taxa

Almquist, S. (2006). Swedish Araneae, part 2 – families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 63: 285-601. -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1858a). Descriptions of six newly discovered species and characters of a new genus of Araneida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 1(6): 426-434. doi: 10.1080/00222935808696953 -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1861a). A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. [Part I]. Ray Society, London, pp. 1-174, pl. 1-12. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.143674 -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1902). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(2-4): 97-384, pl. 9-36. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.6508 -- Show included taxa

Brændegaard, J. (1966). Edderkopper eller spindlere I. Danmarks Fauna 72: 1-224. -- Show included taxa

Charitonov, D. E. (1926c). Materialy k faune paukov Permskoi gubernii. Yezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Akademii Nauk SSSR Leningrad 26: 103-136. -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1897). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae Budapest, pp. 147-366, Pl. VI-X. -- Show included taxa

Dolejš, P. (2020). Revize materiálu Micaria pulicaria (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) ve sbírkách Národního muzea v Praze [Revision of Micaria pulicaria (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in the collection of National Museum, Prague]. Pavouk 49: 14-16. -- Show included taxa

Gallon, R. C. (2021). Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858) and Micaria pulicaria (Sundevall, 1831) sensu stricto in North Wales with notes on their identification. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 150: 7-8. -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa

Holm, Å. (1978). Spiders of the genus Micaria Westr. from the Torneträsk area in northern Swedish Lapland. Entomologica Scandinavica 9(1): 68-74. doi: 10.1163/187631278X00232 -- Show included taxa

Kovblyuk, M. M. & Nadolny, A. A. (2008). The spider genus Micaria Westring, 1851 in the Crimea (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 16: 215-236. -- Show included taxa

Langraf, V., Gajdoš, P., Purgat, P., Štofík, J., Šestáková, A. & Petrovičová, K. (2024). Epigeic spider and ground beetles (carabid) communities of semi-natural and natural habitats in agricultural landscape in Slovakia. Folia Oecologica 51(2): 221-237. doi: 10.2478/foecol-2024-0021 -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1951). British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp. -- Show included taxa

Menge, A. (1872). Preussische Spinnen. V. Abtheilung. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (N. F.) 3: 297-326. -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1967). Studien über die Kopulationsorgane der Spinnengattung Zelotes, Micaria, Robertus und Dipoena nebst Beschreibung einiger neuen oder unvollkommen bekannten Spinnenarten. Přírodovědné práce ústavů Československé Akademie Věd v Brně (N.S.) 1: 251-298. -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. -- Show included taxa

Muster, C. & Michalik, P. (2020). Cryptic diversity in ant‐mimic Micaria spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) and a tribute to early naturalists. Zoologica Scripta 49(2): 197-209 & Appendices. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12404 -- Show included taxa

Nolan, M. (2021). First Irish record of Micaria micans (Blackwall) (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) and revalidation of Micaria pulicaria (Sundevall). Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 45: 56-61. -- Show included taxa

Noordam, A. (1992). Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of the Netherlands, drawings, some notes, and some thoughts about ant-mimicry. Published by the author Leiden, Netherlands, viii & 16 pp. -- Show included taxa

Ohlert, E. (1867). Die Araneiden oder echten Spinnen der Provinz Preussen. Leipzig, pp. 1-172. -- Show included taxa

Ponomarev, A. V., Prokopenko, E. V. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2023). Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858) and M. pulicaria (Sundevall, 1831) (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) in the southeast of the Russian Plain and the Russian Caucasus. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 19(1): 49-56. doi: 10.23885/181433262023191-4956 -- Show included taxa

Reimoser, E. (1937a). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. 16. Familie: Gnaphosidae oder Plattbauchspinnen. 17. Familie: Anyphaenidae oder Zartspinnen. 18. Familie: Clubionidae oder Röhrenspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 1-99. -- Show included taxa

Sammet, K., Martinez, M. R., Tali, K. & Melts, I. (2023). New records of arthropods from the priority Natura 2000 habitats in Estonian coastal areas. Check List 19(6): 1029-1048. doi: 10.15560/19.6.1029 -- 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

Tullgren, A. (1946). Svensk spindelfauna: 3. Egentliga spindlar. Araneae. Fam. 5-7. Clubionidae, Zoridae och Gnaphosidae. Entomologiska Föreningen Stockholm, 141 pp., pl. 1-21. -- Show included taxa

Tuneva, T. K. (2007). Review of the family Gnaphosidae in the Ural fauna (Aranei). 5. Genera Micaria Westring, 1851 and Arboricaria Bosmans, 2000. Arthropoda Selecta 15(3, 2006): 229-250. [[publ. July 16, 2007]] -- Show included taxa

Westring, N. (1861). Araneae svecicae. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 7: 1-615. [[publ. also as separate in 1862]] -- Show included taxa

Woźny, M. (1973). New data on the female of the spider Micaria nivosa L. Koch (Gnaphosidae). Przegląd Zoologiczny 17: 53-54. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1980h). Revision der europäischen Arten der Gattung Micaria Westring 1851, mit Anmerkungen zu den übrigen paläarktischen Arten (Arachnida: Araneida: Gnaphosidae). Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 25(1979): 233-341. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2024-08-01 New taxonomic reference entry Langraf et al., 2024
2023-12-20 New taxonomic reference entry Sammet et al., 2023
2023-03-26 New taxonomic reference entry Ponomarev, Prokopenko & Shmatko, 2023
2022-04-24 New taxonomic reference entry Nolan, 2021
2021-05-03 New taxonomic reference entry Dolejš, 2020
2021-04-10 New taxonomic reference entry Gallon, 2021
2020-02-12 New taxonomic reference entry Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2008
2020-02-12 New taxonomic reference entry Tuneva, 2007
2020-02-12 New taxonomic reference entry Almquist, 2006
2020-02-12 New taxonomic reference entry Noordam, 1992
2020-02-12 New taxonomic reference entry Wunderlich, 1980h
2020-02-12 New taxonomic reference entry Locket & Millidge, 1951
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2020-02-12 New taxonomic reference entry Tullgren, 1946
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2020-02-12 Species synonymy Muster & Michalik, 2020 Micaria similis synonymized with Micaria micans
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2020-02-12 New taxonomic reference entry Muster & Michalik, 2020
2020-02-12 New species inserted Blackwall, 1858a

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