Micaria pulicaria Sundevall, 1831

Della Rocca, Francesca, Stefanelli, Silvia, Cardarelli, Elisa, Bogliani, Giuseppe & Bracco, Francesco, 2021, Contribution to the knowledge of the arthropods community inhabiting the winter-flooded meadows (marcite) of northern Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 57889-57889 : 57889

Micaria pulicaria Sundevall, 1831

Distribution

Holoarctic species ( Isaia et al. 2007). It is distributed in Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia, Central Asia, Mongolia and China ( World Spider Catalog 2020). It can be found in mainland Italy and Sardinia ( Pantini and Isaia 2019).

Notes

It is a widespread species that occurs, at ground level, in a wide variety of locations exposed to the sun: under stones and other debris, at the base of tufts of grass and in leaf litter ( Roberts 1995). It is a diurnal hunter and a specialised predator ( Isaia et al. 2007)