Biology:Micrommata

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Micrommata
Laufspinne auf Kiesweg.jpg
M. virescens, male, on a gravel road in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Micrommata
Latreille, 1804[1]
Type species
M. virescens
(Clerck, 1757)
Species

6, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Sparassus Walckenaer, 1805[2]

Micrommata is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1804.[3]

Species

(As of September 2019) it contains six species and one subspecies, all with a palaearctic distribution except M. darlingi, endemic to South Africa :[1]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Micrommata Latreille, 1804. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3125. Retrieved 2019-10-13. 
  2. Jäger, P. (1999). "Sparassidae - the valid scientific name for the huntsman spiders (Arachnida: Araneae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen 17: 6. 
  3. Latreille, P. A. (1804). "Tableau methodique des Insectes". Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 24: 129–295. 

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