Micrommata

Micrommata
M. virescens, male, on a gravel road in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Micrommata Latreille, 1804
Type species
M. virescens (Clerck, 1757)
Species
7, see text
Synonyms
Sparassus Walckenaer, 1805

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

Species

As of December 2024^[update] it contains seven species (and one former subspecies), all with a palaearctic distribution, except for M. diesenhoff from Sierra Leone; and M. darlingi, endemic to Zimbabwe which can be misplaced:

• Micrommata aljibica Urones, 2004 – Spain
• Micrommata biggi Jäger, 2023 – Turkey, Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Turkmenistan
• Micrommata darlingi Pocock, 1901 – Zimbabwe
• Micrommata diesenhoff Jäger, 2023 – Sierra Leone
• Micrommata formosa Pavesi, 1878 – Mediterranean to Central Asia
• Micrommata ligurina (C. L. Koch, 1845) – Mediterranean to Central Asia
• Micrommata virescens (Clerck, 1757) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe Central Asia, to Far East (e.g. Korea, Japan) (including former Micrommata v. ornata (Walckenaer, 1802)).

(For Micrommata aragonensis Urones, 2004 see under Micrommata formosa).

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