Micaria chrysis ( Simon, 1910 )

Marusik, Yuri M. & Omelko, Mikhail M., 2017, Redescription of Micaria beaufortia (Araneae, Gnaphosidae), with notes on Afrotropical Micaria, Zootaxa 4294 (4), pp. 462-470 : 463

Micaria chrysis ( Simon, 1910)

Micariolepis chrysis Simon 1910: 203 (♀).

Comments. The species was described based on a single female and lacks any illustrations; so far it is known from only one taxonomic entry. The species was transferred to Micaria from Micariolepis Simon, 1879 , due to the synonymisation of the two genera by Wunderlich (1980). Simon (1910) compared M. chrysis with M. dives ( Lucas, 1846) , a trans-Palaearctic species that clearly differs from M. beaufortia , redescribed below. In addition, these two African species differ in size, M. chrysis females being 3 mm and M. beaufortia 5.25 mm.

The type locality of this species was indicated by Simon (1910) as " Petit Namaqualand: Port Nolloth "; the country was not indicated. There are two names Namaqualand : one is Great Namaqualand in southern Namibia , and another is Little Namaqualand in north-western Northern Cape Province, South Africa . The World Spider Catalog (2017) indicates its distribution as Namibia, although Little Namaqualand and Port Nolloth are located in South Africa ( Fig. 30 ). It seems that Roewer (1955) assigned it to the wrong country, mentioning that the species was from "SW-Afrika" (currently Namibia) .

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FIGURE 30. Distribution records of Afrotropical Micaria: M. beaufortia (circle), M. chrysis (square) and M. tersissima (diamond).