Micrommata | |
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M. virescens, male, on a gravel road in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland | |
Scientific classification | |
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)
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Species | |
6, see text | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Micrommata is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1804. [3]
As of September 2019 [update] it contains six species and one subspecies, all with a palaearctic distribution except M. darlingi, endemic to South Africa: [1]