Micaria is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Niklas Westring in 1851.[7] They are 1.3 to 6.5 millimetres (0.051 to 0.256 in) long.[8]

Micaria
Temporal range: Palaeogene–present
Micaria fulgens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Micaria
Westring, 1851[1]
Type species
M. fulgens
(Walckenaer, 1802)
Species

105, see text

Synonyms[1]

They are often called "ant spiders" due to their ant-like appearance and ant mimicking behavior.[9]

Species

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As of May 2019 it contains 105 species and two subspecies found in the Holarctic, Indomalayan, Australasian and Afrotropical zoogeographic regions:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Micaria Westring, 1851". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. ^ Wunderlich, J. (2017). "Descriptions, notes and synonyms of some mainly Mediterranean and Macaronesian spiders (Araneae) of various families". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 10: 315.
  3. ^ Breitling, R. (2017). "Public DNA barcoding data resolve the status of the genus Arboricaria (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 54: 26.
  4. ^ Haddad, C. R.; Bosmans, R. (2013). "Synonymy of the North African spider genus Castanilla Caporiacco, 1936 with Micaria Westring, 1851 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)". Zootaxa. 3734 (3): 397–399. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3734.3.10. PMID 25277923.
  5. ^ Murphy, J. (2007). Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society, St Neots, Cambridgeshire.
  6. ^ Wunderlich, J. (1980). "Revision der europäischen Arten der Gattung Micaria Westring 1851, mit Anmerkungen zu den übrigen paläarktischen Arten (Arachnida: Araneida: Gnaphosidae)". Zoologische Beiträge. 25 (1979): 238.
  7. ^ Westring, N. (1851). "Förteckning öfver de till närvarande tid Kände, i Sverige förekommande Spindlarter, utgörande ett antal af 253, deraf 132 äro nya för svenska Faunan". Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar. 2: 25–62.
  8. ^ Platnick, Norman I.; Shadab, Mohammad U. (1988). "A Revision of the American Spiders of the Genus Micaria (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". American Museum Novitates (2916): 1–64.
  9. ^ "Family Gnaphosidae (Flat-bellied Ground Spiders)". Spiders of Sungai Tawau. Retrieved 2016-09-28.