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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ground Spiders (Gnaphosidae) » Micaria » Micaria gertschi

Species Micaria gertschi

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · Works Cited
Micaria sp - Micaria gertschi - male
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 gertschi (Micaria gertschi)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
See the World Spider Catalog.
Explanation of Names
Barrows & Ivie, 1942
Size
Males: ~2.9 mm(1)
Females: ~3.5 mm(1)
Identification
Palp
Range
Alberta south to Arizona and east to Nova Scotia and Maine (1)
Habitat
"Specimens have been collected along salt marshes, dunes, sand pits, and beaches, in old fields, prairies, pastures, and calcareous bogs, under rocks and associated with aspen, lodgepole pines, and sage at elevations up to 9,000 feet"(1)
Season
Mature males: late April to late August(1)
Mature females: late April to late September(1)
Remarks
"Females resemble those of M. browni but have a shorter anterior epigynal margin."(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.
Contributed by Chad Heins on 10 June, 2014 - 3:21pm
Last updated 12 March, 2023 - 7:42pm

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