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For the United States & Canada

Species Micaria nye

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Gnaphosidae (Ground Spiders)
Genus Micaria
Species nye (Micaria nye)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Explanation of Names
Platnick & Shadab, 1988
Size
Males: ~2.8 mm(1)
Females: ~3.6 mm(1)
Range
This species is found from California to Texas and north to Idaho as well as Mexico.(1)
Remarks
"This species can be recignized by the oddly shaped embolus and the elongated paramedian epigynal ducts."(1)
Works Cited
1.A Revision of the American Spiders of the Genus Micaria (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)
Platnick, Norman I. & Mohammad U. Shadab. 1988. American Museum Novitates, 2916: 1-64.