Micaria coarctata (Lucas, 1846)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037344

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Described:

Distribution: Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia


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Taxonomic References
Drassus coarctatus Lucas, 1846: 228, pl. 14, f. 2 (Df) Original description
Drassus formicarius Lucas, 1846: 228, pl. 14, f. 4 (Df; preoccupied by Sundevall, 1831, see Micaria formicaria) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064559]
Macaria coarctata Simon, 1864: 113
Micaria formicaria L. Koch, 1866: 69, pl. 3, f. 49-51 (mf; belongs to Micaria lucasi per Thorell, 1871a: 172)
Micaria praesignis L. Koch, 1867c: 862 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064557]
Micaria lucasii Thorell, 1871a: 172 (replacement name for Drassus formicarius Lucas) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064556]
Micaria albimana O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 251, pl. 16, f. 34 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027496]
Micaria smaragdula Simon, 1878a: 14 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064558]
Micaria coarctata Simon, 1878a: 28
Micaria chalybeia Kulczyński in Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1897: 256, pl. 10, f. 23-24 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064560]
Micaria chalybeia Lessert, 1910b: 433, f. 201-202 (mf)
Micaria smaragdula Simon, 1932: 952, 975, f. 1480-1481 (mf, S of Micaria chalybeia)
Micaria albimana Wunderlich, 1980h: 264, f. 22a-f, 44a-e (mf, S of Micaria smaragdula [see also Wunderlich, 2012b: 188])
Micaria albimana Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 436, f. 1145 (mf)
Micaria lucasi Weiss & Petrișor, 1999: 103 (nomen dubium)
Micaria coarctata Bosmans & Blick, 2000: 452, f. 17-20 (mf, removed from S of Micaria formicaria Sundevall [rejecting Simon, 1932: 974], S of M. albimana, M. formicaria Lucas, M. lucasi and M. praesignis)
Micaria coarctata Levy, 2002: 118, f. 13-22 (mf)
Micaria coarctata Chatzaki, Thaler & Mylonas, 2002a: 577, f. 24-25, 31-32 (mf)
Micaria coarctata Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2008: 216, f. 11-20 (mf)
Micaria smaragdula Wunderlich, 2012b: 188 (removed from S of Micaria corarctata, for the European specimens [= M. albimana sensu Wunderlich, 1980h: 264]; but not discussing e.g. M. praesignis, therefore not accepted by Platnick)
Micaria coarctata Lecigne, 2018b: 67, f. 7F (f)
Micaria coarctata Polchaninova et al., 2021: 99, f. 8, 13-14 (m)
Micaria coarctata Geci et al., 2025a: 274, f. 4H-K (m)
References

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 della Società Entomologica Italiana 78(2): 443-476. -- Show included taxa

Chatzaki, M., Thaler, K. & Mylonas, M. (2002a). Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae; Araneae) of Crete (Greece). Taxonomy and distribution. I. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 109(3): 559-601. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.79611 -- 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

Geci, D., Ibrahimi, H., Bilalli, A. & Musliu, M. (2025a). New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Western Balkans. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11(2): 269-289. doi: 10.61186/jibs.11.2.269 -- Show included taxa

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

Koch, L. (1866). Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. Nürnberg, Hefte 1-6, pp. 1-304. -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1867c). Zur Arachniden und Myriapoden-Fauna Süd-Europas. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 17: 857-900. -- 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

Lecigne, S. (2018b). Récits de chasses aranéologiques récentes dans plusieurs départements de France. Redécouverte de Philodromus buchari Kubcová, 2004 (Araneae: Philodromidae) et confirmation de la présence de Theridion harmsi Wunderlich, 2011 (Araneae: Theridiidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 33(2): 59-99. -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1910b). Catalogue des invertebres de la Suisse. Fasc. 3, Araignées. Musée d'histoire naturelle de Genève, 635 pp. -- 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

Lucas, H. (1846). Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. Paris, Sciences physiques, Zoologie 1, 89-271, pl. 1-17. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.112444 -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00489.x -- Show included taxa

Polchaninova, N., Gnelitsa, V., Terekhova, V. & Iosypchuk, A. (2021). New and rare spider species (Arachnida, Araneae) from Ukraine. Zoodiversity 55(2): 95-112. doi: 10.15407/zoo2021.02.095 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1864). Histoire naturelle des Araignées (Aranéides). Roret, Paris, 540 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.47654 [[there are two published versions of pp. 65-68, version 1 from BHL, version 2 from Munich library]] -- 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

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

Thorell, T. (1871a). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part II. C. J. Lundström, Uppsala, pp. 97-228. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.69282 -- Show included taxa

Weiss, I. & Petrișor, A. (1999). List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107. -- 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

Wunderlich, J. (2012b). Few rare and a new species of spiders (Araneae) from Portugal, with resurrection of the genus Chiracanthops Mello-Leitao 1942 (Clubionidae: Eutichurinae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 8: 183-191. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-03-25 New taxonomic reference entry Geci et al., 2025a
2021-05-01 New taxonomic reference entry Polchaninova et al., 2021
2018-09-23 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, 2018b

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