# Microsa

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|taxon=Microsa
|authority=[Platnick](/source/Norman_I._Platnick) & Shadab, 1977<ref name=NMBE />
|type_species=''[M. chickeringi](/source/Microsa_chickeringi)''
|type_species_authority=Platnick & Shadab, 1977
|subdivision_ranks=Species
|subdivision={{Specieslist
|[M. chickeringi](/source/Microsa_chickeringi)|<small>Platnick & Shadab, 1977</small> – Virgin Is.
|[M. cubitas](/source/Microsa_cubitas)|<small>Alayón & Platnick, 1993</small> – Cuba
|[M. gertschi](/source/Microsa_gertschi)|<small>Platnick, 1978</small> – Bahama Is.}}
}}

'''''Microsa''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [Caribbean](/source/Caribbean) [ground spiders](/source/Gnaphosidae) that was first described by [Norman I. Platnick](/source/Norman_I._Platnick) & M. U. Shadab in 1977.<ref name=Plat1977>{{cite journal|last1=Platnick|first1=N. I.|last2=Shadab|first2=M. U.|year=1977|title=A new genus of the spider subfamily Gnaphosinae from the Virgin Islands (Araneae, Gnaphosidae).|journal=Journal of Arachnology|pages=191–194|volume=3}}</ref> {{as of|2019|05}} it contains only three species: ''[M. chickeringi](/source/Microsa_chickeringi)'', ''[M. cubitas](/source/Microsa_cubitas)'', and ''[M. gertschi](/source/Microsa_gertschi)''.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal|title=Gen. Microsa Platnick & Shadab, 1977|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|accessdate=2019-06-04|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/960|doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>

==References==
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Category:Araneomorphae genera
Category:Gnaphosidae
Category:Spiders of the Caribbean
Category:Taxa named by Norman I. Platnick

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