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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Micaria  Westring, 1851   34 species

Micaria nivosa  L. Koch, 1866

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027549

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Description
Male

Embolus strongly bent.

Body length male: 3.2-4.8 mm
Female

Epigyne variable, with bent, mostly bipartite transverse ridge, without groove, with sickle-shaped structure posteriorly. Tibia I and II female: ventrally with 5-6 pairs of thin bristles.

Body length female: 3.2-5.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Mikhailov 1988)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Aakra unpubl.)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Miller 1967)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Mikhailov 1988)

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male Pedipalp, lateral view
(Aakra unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp
(Miller 1967)

species

male Pedipalp
(Mikhailov 1988)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Rozwałka 2022)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Rozwałka 2022)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Tuneva 2007)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Tuneva 2007)

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male Tip of cymbium, ventral view
(Tuneva 2007)

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male Leg I, prolateral view
(Rozwałka 2022)

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female Epigyne
(Miller 1971)

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female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

species

female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Epigyne
(Rozwałka 2022)

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female Epigyne
(Tuneva 2007)

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female Epigyne
(Tuneva 2007)

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female Vulva
(Miller 1967)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Tullgren 1946)

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female Vulva
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Vulva
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Rozwałka 2022)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Tuneva 2007)

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female Leg I, prolateral view
(Rozwałka 2022)

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female Habitus, dorsal view
(Rozwałka 2022)

species

Tibia I
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

species

Habitus, dorsal view
(Tuneva 2007)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Austria   (no references) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Estonia   (Vilbaste, 1987) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka, 2022; Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Ukraine   (no references) |||
References

Aakra K (unpubl.)

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Mikhailov K G (1988) Contribution to the spider fauna of the genus Micaria Westring, 1851 of the USSR. I (Aranei, Gnaphosidae). Spixiana 10: 219-334 pdf

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 pdf

Miller F (1971) Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Rozwałka R (2022) New data on distribution of Micaria nivosa L. Koch (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Poland. Fragmenta Faunistica 64: 53-58 pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Tullgren A (1946) Svensk spindelfauna. 3. Egentiliga spinddlar. Araneae Fam 5-7. Clubionidae, Zoridae och Gnaphosidae. Stockholm (Entomol Fören.): 141 pp. pdf

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: 229-250 pdf

Vilbaste A (1987) Eesti Ämblikud (Aranei). Annoteeritud nimestik. Estonian spiders (Aranei). An annotated check list. Valgus, Tallinn. 113 pp. & 512 maps on 67 unpag. pages pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
20-12-2023 Distribution update Detail
30-06-2022 Image insert
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