Micaria

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|fossil_range={{Fossil range|Palaeogene|present}}

|taxon=Micaria

|image=Pavouk01700.JPG

|image_caption=Micaria fulgens

|authority=Westring, 1851

|type_species=M. fulgens

|type_species_authority=(Walckenaer, 1802)

|subdivision_ranks=Species

|subdivision=105, see text

|synonyms=*Arboricaria Bosmans, 2000{{cite journal|last=Wunderlich|first=J.|year=2017|title=Descriptions, notes and synonyms of some mainly Mediterranean and Macaronesian spiders (Araneae) of various families|journal=Beiträge zur Araneologie|volume=10|page=315}}{{cite journal|last=Breitling|first=R.|year=2017|title=Public DNA barcoding data resolve the status of the genus Arboricaria (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)|journal=Arachnologische Mitteilungen|volume=54|page=26}}

  • Castanilla Caporiacco, 1936{{cite journal|last1=Haddad|first1=C. R.|last2=Bosmans|first2=R.|year=2013|title=Synonymy of the North African spider genus Castanilla Caporiacco, 1936 with Micaria Westring, 1851 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)|journal=Zootaxa|volume=3734|issue=3 |pages=397–399 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3734.3.10|pmid=25277923 }}
  • Epikurtomma Tucker, 1923{{cite book|last=Murphy|first=J.|year=2007|title=Gnaphosid genera of the world|publisher=British Arachnological Society, St Neots, Cambridgeshire}}
  • Micariolepis Simon, 1879{{cite journal|last=Wunderlich|first=J.|year=1980|title=Revision der europäischen Arten der Gattung Micaria Westring 1851, mit Anmerkungen zu den übrigen paläarktischen Arten (Arachnida: Araneida: Gnaphosidae)|journal=Zoologische Beiträge|volume=25|issue=1979|page=238}}

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Micaria is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Niklas Westring in 1851.{{cite journal|last=Westring|first=N.|year=1851|title=Förteckning öfver de till närvarande tid Kände, i Sverige förekommande Spindlarter, utgörande ett antal af 253, deraf 132 äro nya för svenska Faunan.|journal=Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar|pages=25–62|volume=2}} They are {{convert|1.3|to|6.5|mm}} long.{{cite journal|title=A Revision of the American Spiders of the Genus Micaria (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)|last1=Platnick|first1=Norman I.|first2=Mohammad U.|last2=Shadab|year=1988|journal=American Museum Novitates|issue=2916|pages=1–64}}

They are often called "ant spiders" due to their ant-like appearance and ant mimicking behavior.{{cite web|url=http://wongchunxing.com/Spider/2-NO_WEBS/Family_Gnaphosidae.htm|title=Family Gnaphosidae (Flat-bellied Ground Spiders)|accessdate=2016-09-28 |publisher=Spiders of Sungai Tawau}}

Species

{{as of|2019|05}} it contains 105 species and two subspecies found in the Holarctic, Indomalayan, Australasian and Afrotropical zoogeographic regions:{{cite journal|title=Gen. Micaria Westring, 1851|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|accessdate=2019-06-04|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/958|doi=10.24436/2}}

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