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Femur I dark brown, distal half light yellow with black-brown spot, a bristle within (often broken off); male pedipalp with narrow cymbium, ventrally with 2 and basally with one bristle; retinaculum narrow; epigyne with a bent ridge; receptaculum seminis oval, ducts divergent; pedipalp femur very large Micaria dives (Lucas, 1846)
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  Pedipalp (Thaler 1981c) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Pedipalp (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Pedipalp (Thaler 1981c) |
 Bulbus, ventral view (Thaler 1981c) |
  Epigyne (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Epigyne (Braendegaard 1966) |
 Epigyne (Levy 1973) |
 Vulva, ventral view (Thaler 1981c) |
 Vulva (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Vulva, ventral view (Thaler 1981c) |
 Vulva (Levy 1973) |
 Habitus
(Braendegaard 1966) |
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Femur I without black-brown spot on bright background; sexual organ different (cymbium only in subopaca with 2 distal bristles 2 |
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Chelicerae with long grey hairs and with conspicuously, mostly dense copper-coloured scale hairs Micaria fulgens (Walckenaer, 1802)
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 Pedipalp (Reimoser 1937) |
 Pedipalp (Roberts 1995) |
 Pedipalp (Roberts 1995) |
 Cymbium (Reimoser 1937) |
 Epigyne (Braendegaard 1966) |
 Epigyne (Miller 1971) |
 Vulva (Miller 1971) |
 Vulva (Reimoser 1937) |
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Chelicerae only with grey, bristle-like hairs 3 |
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Femur I and II distally with 2 bristles; male pedipalp with 1 or 2 small hump-shaped tibial apophysis; cymbium with 3 bristles; embolus very thick; retinaculum missing; epigyne without transverse ridge, medially with variable longitudinal bar Micaria rossica Thorell, 1875
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 Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH), ventral view (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Pedipalp (Pesarini 2000) |
 Epigyne (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Epigyne (Pesarini 2000) |
 Vulva (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
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Femur I and II mostly with one dorsal bristle (only in aenea with 2 bristles); male pedipalp with 1 or 2 larger tibial apophyses; epigyne different 4 |
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Tibial apophysis of male pedipalp dorsally bent; cymbium moderately long, distally with 4 bristles; embolus screw-like; retinaculum large; epigyne with glasses-like structure Micaria guttulata (C. L. Koch, 1839)
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 Pedipalp, ventral view (Miller 1967) |
 Pedipalp (Miller 1967) |
 Pedipalp (Roberts 1998) |
 Pedipalp (Reimoser 1937) |
 Cymbium (Reimoser 1937) |
 Epigyne (Roberts 1998) |
 Epigyne (Roberts 1998) |
 Vulva (Miller 1971) |
 Vulva (Reimoser 1937) |
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Femur I and II distally with 2 bristles; male pedipalp with reduced retinaculum; cymbium with 4 bristles; epigyne with large, anteriorly very broad groove Micaria aenea Thorell, 1871
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 Pedipalp (Miller 1967) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Miller 1967) |
 Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH), ventral view (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Epigyne (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Vulva (Miller 1967) |
 Vulva (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Vulva, ventral view (Tullgren 1946) |
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Femur I and II with one dorsal bristle; retinaculum not reduced; epigyne different 6 |
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Cymbium distally with 3 bristles; epigyne with 2 shallow grooves, arcuately bordered or with one large groove and strongly sclerotised margin 7 |
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Cymbium distally with 4 bristles; epigyne without or with small groove 9 |
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Femur III and IV with one distal bristle in basal half; male pedipalp as fig.; epigyne with large, deep groove, its anterior margin strongly sclerotised Micaria alpina L. Koch, 1872
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 Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH), ventral view (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Locket & Millidge 1951) |
 Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Pedipalp (Locket & Millidge 1951) |
 Epigyne (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Epigyne (Locket & Millidge 1951) |
 Epigyne (Locket et al. 1974) |
 Epigyne (Locket et al. 1974) |
 Vulva (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
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Femur III and IV with 2 distal bristles; sexual organ different 8 |
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Male pedipalp with long and narrow tibial apophysis; embolus thick; distal retinaculum larger; epigyne with shallow groove and V-shaped structure (transverse ridges) in the centre Micaria lenzi Bösenberg, 1899
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 Pedipalp (Roberts 1998) |
 Pedipalp (Reimoser 1937) |
 Cymbium (Reimoser 1937) |
 Epigyne (Roberts 1998) |
 Vulva (Reimoser 1937) |
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Male pedipalp with shorter tibial apophysis; embolus thin; retinaculum small, in the middle of bulbus; epigyne as fig. Micaria silesiaca L. Koch, 1875
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 Pedipalp (Locket et al. 1974) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Miller 1971) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Locket et al. 1974) |
 Pedipalp (Reimoser 1937) |
 Epigyne (Miller 1971) |
 Epigyne/vulva (Thaler & Noflatscher 1990) |
 Epigyne (Locket & Millidge 1953) |
 Vulva (Miller 1967) |
 Vulva (Reimoser 1937) |
 Vulva, dorsal view (Tullgren 1946) |
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Male pedipalp with 2 ± towering tibial apophysis; female tibia I and II ventrally with 1 or 2 bristles; sclerotised epigynal ridge very broad 10 |
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Male pedipalp with 1 tibial apophysis, appressed on cymbium; female tibia I and II ventrally without (pulicaria) or with 3 or 5 pairs of bristles respectively; sclerotised epigynal ridge narrow 11 |
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Prosoma mostly distinctly red-brown (remove scale hairs), very elongated, 1.75-2.0 times as long as wide; opisthosoma ventrally without white longitudinal band, often with white dots; male pedipalp as fig.; position of cymbial bristles variable; epigyne with longish oval receptaculum seminis, reaching to transverse ridge at least Micaria formicaria (Sundevall, 1831)
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 Pedipalp (Azheganova 1968) |
 Pedipalp (Pesarini unpubl.) |
 Pedipalp (Roberts 1995) |
 Cymbium (Reimoser 1937) |
 Epigyne (Miller 1971) |
 Epigyne (Pesarini unpubl.) |
 Vulva (Azheganova 1968) |
 Vulva (Miller 1967) |
 Vulva (Reimoser 1937) |
 Vulva, dorsal view (Tullgren 1946) |
 Vulva, ventral view (Tullgren 1946) |
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Prosoma mostly black-brown (remove scale hairs), only 1.3-1.8 times as long as wide; opisthosoma ventrally with white longitudinal band (can be abraded); cymbial bristles variable; epigyne with egg-shaped receptaculum seminis, not reaching to transverse ridge Micaria coarctata (Lucas, 1846)
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 Pedipalp, ventral view (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Chyzer & Kulczynski 1897) |
 Pedipalp (Levy 2002) |
 Pedipalp (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Pedipalp (Chyzer & Kulczynski 1897) |
 Pedipalp (Levy 2002) |
 Epigyne (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Epigyne (Chyzer & Kulczynski 1897) |
 Epigyne (Levy 2002) |
 Epigyne (Simon 1932) |
 Vulva (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Vulva, dorsal view (Tullgren 1946) |
 Spermatheca (Levy 2002) |
 Prosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 2002) |
 Eyes, dorsal view
(Levy 2002) |
 Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 2002) |
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Male pedipalp with very elongated retinaculum; pedipalp tibia dorsally sometimes with hump; female tibia I and II ventrally without bristles Micaria pulicaria (Sundevall, 1831)
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 Pedipalp (Braendegaard 1966) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Braendegaard 1966) |
 Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH), ventral view (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Locket & Millidge 1951) |
 Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Pedipalp (Locket & Millidge 1951) |
 Epigyne (Braendegaard 1966) |
 Epigyne (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Epigyne (Locket & Millidge 1951) |
 Vulva (Miller 1967) |
 Vulva (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Vulva, ventral view (Tullgren 1946) |
 Habitus (Tullgren 1946) |
 Eyes, dorsal view
(Locket & Millidge 1951) |
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Male pedipalp with distinctly shorter retinaculum; female tibia I and II ventrally with 3 or 5-6 pairs of bristles 12 |
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Male pedipalp with very strongly bent embolus, without excrescence between embolus and retinaculum; female tibia I and II ventrally with 5-6 pairs of thin bristles; epigyne variable, with bent, mostly bipartite transverse ridge, without groove, posteriorly with sickle-shaped structure Micaria nivosa L. Koch, 1866
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 Pedipalp (Mikhailov 1987) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Aakra unpubl.) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Miller 1967) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Mikhailov 1987) |
 Pedipalp, lateral view (Aakra unpubl.) |
 Pedipalp (Miller 1967) |
 Pedipalp (Mikhailov 1987) |
 Epigyne (Miller 1971) |
 Vulva (Miller 1967) |
 Vulva, dorsal view (Tullgren 1946) |
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Embolus and retinaculum less bent, with a excrescence between embolus and retinaculum; female tibia I and II ventrally with 3 pairs of robust bristles; epigyne with a transverse ridge within a groove, posteriorly without sickle-shaped structure Micaria albovittata (Lucas, 1846)
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 Pedipalp, ventral view (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Levy 2002) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Locket & Millidge 1951) |
 Pedipalp (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Pedipalp, retrolateral view (Levy 2002) |
 Pedipalp (Locket & Millidge 1951) |
 Pedipalp (Roberts 1995) |
 Epigyne (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Epigyne (Levy 2002) |
 Epigyne (Roberts 1995) |
 Epigyne (Locket & Millidge 1951) |
 Vulva (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Vulva (Miller 1967) |
 Spermathecae, dorsal view (Levy 2002) |
 Prosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 2002) |
 Eyes, dorsal view
(Levy 2002) |
 Eyes, dorsal view
(Locket & Millidge 1951) |
 Metatarsus and tarsus
(Locket & Millidge 1951) |
 Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 2002) |
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| 1. Micaria blicki Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2008 |
 Pedipalp, retrolateral view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Bulbus, ventral view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Median apophysis (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Palpal tibia, retrolateral view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Epigyne, ventral view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Epigyne, ventral view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Epigyne, dorsal view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
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| 2. Micaria bosmansi Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2008 |
 Pedipalp, retrolateral view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Bulbus, ventral view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Median apophysis (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Palpal tibia, retrolateral view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Epigyne, ventral view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Epigyne, ventral view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Vulva, ventral view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
 Vulva, dorsal view (Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2008) |
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| 3. Micaria brignolii (Bosmans & Blick, 2000) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Pedipalp (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Epigyne (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Vulva (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
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| 4. Micaria constricta Emerton, 1894 |
 Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Epigyne (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Vulva (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
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| 5. Micaria cyrnea Brignoli, 1983 |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Pedipalp (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Epigyne (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Epigyne (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Vulva (Hansen 1992) |
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| 6. Micaria funerea Simon, 1878 |
 Pedipalp (Simon 1932) |
 Epigyne (Simon 1932) |
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| 7. Micaria gulliae Tuneva & Esyunin, 2003 |
 Pedipalp, dorsal view (Tuneva & Esyunin 2003) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Tuneva & Esyunin 2003) |
 Pedipalp, lateral view (Tuneva & Esyunin 2003) |
 Epigyne (Tuneva & Esyunin 2003) |
 Vulva (Tuneva & Esyunin 2003) |
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| 8. Micaria guttigera Simon, 1878 |
 Pedipalp (Simon 1932) |
 Epigyne (Simon 1932) |
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| 9. Micaria koeni (Bosmans, 2000) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Pedipalp (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Epigyne (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Vulva (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
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| 10. Micaria pallipes (Lucas, 1846) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Bosmans 1999) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Levy 2002) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Mikhailov 1987) |
 Pedipalp (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Pedipalp, retrolateral view (Levy 2002) |
 Pedipalp (Mikhailov 1987) |
 Tibial apophysis (Mikhailov 1987) |
 Epigyne (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Epigyne (Levy 2002) |
 Vulva (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Spermathecae, dorsal view (Levy 2002) |
 Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 2002) |
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| 11. Micaria sociabilis (Kulczyński, 1897) |
 Pedipalp (Simon 1932) |
 Tibial apophysis (Heimer & Nentwig 1991) |
 Tibial apophysis (Heimer & Nentwig 1991) |
 Epigyne (Heimer & Nentwig 1991) |
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| 12. Micaria subopaca Westring, 1861 |
 Pedipalp (Braendegaard 1966) |
 Pedipalp (Miller 1967) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Braendegaard 1966) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Miller 1967) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Locket & Millidge 1953) |
 Pedipalp (Roberts 1995) |
 Pedipalp (Locket & Millidge 1953) |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Heimer & Nentwig 1991) |
 Pedipalp, retrolateral view (Heimer & Nentwig 1991) |
 Cymbium (Reimoser 1937) |
 Epigyne (Braendegaard 1966) |
 Epigyne (Miller 1967) |
 Epigyne (Locket & Millidge 1953) |
 Epigyne (Heimer & Nentwig 1991) |
 Vulva (Miller 1967) |
 Vulva (Reimoser 1937) |
 Vulva (Tullgren 1946) |
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| 13. Micaria triguttata Simon, 1884 |
 Pedipalp, ventral view (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Pedipalp (Bosmans & Blick 2000) |
 Epigyne (Bosmans 1999) |
 Opisthosoma, dorsal view (Ledoux et al. 2003) |
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| 14. Micaria tripunctata Holm, 1978 |
 Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Pedipalp (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Epigyne (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
 Vulva (courtesy of the AMNH) (Platnick & Shadab 1988) |
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