Taxon details

Family: Gnaphosidae / Genus: Micaria

Micaria ignea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2020-02-25
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025012]
  • Distribution: Canary Is., Algeria, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Yemen, Israel, Syria, Iran, Central Asia
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Aphantaulax troxochroides Strand, 1915, 1 f (2809-107)
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Micaria harmsi Wunderlich, 1979, 1 m (30017-131)
  • Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Micaria harmsi Wunderlich, 1979, 1 m (65671-107)
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Micaria judaeorum Strand, 1915, 1 f (4659-131); 1 f (4660-131)
Taxonomic references
Drassus fastuosus Lucas, 1846: 221, pl. 13, f. 10 (Df; preoccupied by Drassus fastuosus (C. L. Koch, 1835), which is a S of M. fulgens).
Micaria ignea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 248, pl. 16, f. 30 (Df).
Micaria pygmaea Kroneberg, 1875: 19, pl. 5, f. 42 (Dm).
Micaria todilla Simon, 1878a: 28 (Df).
Micaria trochilus Simon, 1890a: 110 (Df).
Aphantaulax troxochroides Strand, 1915c: 143 (Df).
Micaria judaeorum Strand, 1915c: 161 (Df).
Castaneira ignea Reimoser, 1919: 185 (per Roewer).
Micaria harmsi Wunderlich, 1980h: 283, f. 32a-d (Dm).
Micaria todilla Wunderlich, 1980h: 285, f. 15, 56 (f).
Micaria judaeorum Wunderlich, 1980h: 305, f. 2a-b, 67 (f).
Micaria trochilus Wunderlich, 1980h: 306, f. 68 (f).
Micaria pygmaea Mikhailov & Fet, 1986: 180, f. 2 (m, S).
Micaria pygmaea Wunderlich, 1987a: 246, f. 654a-e (mf, S).
Micaria pygmaea Mikhailov, 1988: 325, f. 8-12 (m).
Micaria pygmaea Bosmans & Blick, 2000: 447, f. 5-8 (mf, figs sub M. fastuosa, S of Drassus fastuosus Lucas, 1846, preoccupied).
Micaria ignea Levy, 2002: 121, f. 23-30 (Tf from Castianeira, Sm).
Micaria pygmaea Chatzaki, Thaler & Mylonas, 2002a: 575, f. 28-29, 35-36 (mf).
Micaria ignea Namaghi et al., 2016: 18, f. 2j (f).
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. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kroneberg, A. (1875). Araneae. In: Fedtschenko, A. P. (ed.) Puteshestvie v Tourkestan. Reisen in Turkestan. Zoologischer Theil. Nachrichten der Gesellschaft der Freunde der Naturwissenschaften zu Moskau 19(3): 1-58, pl. 1-5. [includes 3 maps by Fedtschenko] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (2002). Spiders of the genera Micaria and Aphantaulax (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 48: 111-134. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lucas, H. (1846). Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. In: Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842 publiée par ordre du Gouvernement et avec le concours d'une commission académique. Paris, Sciences physiques, Zoologie 1, 89-271. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.112444 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mikhailov, K. G. & Fet, V. Y. (1986). [Contribution to the spider fauna (Aranei) of Turkmenia. I. Families Anyphaenidae, Sparassidae, Zoridae, Clubionidae, Micariidae, Oxyopidae]. Sborník Trudov Zoologicheskogo Muzeya MGU, Moscow State University 24: 168-186. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mikhailov, K. G. (1988). Contribution to the spider fauna of the genus Micaria Westring, 1851 of the USSR. I (Aranei, Gnaphosidae). Spixiana 10(3, 1987): 319-334. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Namaghi, H. S., Safari, A., Entezari, E. & Zamani, A. (2016). New faunistic records of spiders (Araneae) from Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. Zoology and Ecology 26(1): 18-21. doi:10.1080/21658005.2015.1104812 download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Reimoser, E. (1919). Katalog der echten Spinnen (Araneae) des Paläarktischen Gebietes. Abhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 10(2): 1-280. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1878a). Les arachnides de France. Paris 4, 1-334. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1890a). Etudes arachnologiques. 22e Mémoire. XXXIV. Etude sur les arachnides de l'Yemen. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 10: 77-124. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1915c). Dritte Mitteilung über Spinnen aus Palästina, gesammelt von Herrn Dr J. Aharoni. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81(A2): 134-171. 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

Wunderlich, J. (1987a). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen, 435 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2020-02-25 Species updated Error corrected (Old value)
2016-02-25 New taxonomic reference entry Namaghi et al., 2016 n/a