Taxon details


Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-08-01
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051639]
  • Distribution: Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Central Asia
Type deposit 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).
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, 2007: 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Almquist, S. (2007). Swedish Araneae, part 2 – families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 63(2006): 285-601. [publ. in 2007 per Jonsson, in litt.] download pdf download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- 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 download pdf download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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