Misumenops nepenthicola

Misumenops nepenthicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Misumenops
Species:	M. nepenthicola
Binomial name
Misumenops nepenthicola (Pocock, 1898)[1]
Synonyms
Misumena nepenthicola

Misumenops nepenthicola is a species of crab spider. It lives inside the pitchers of a number of lowland Nepenthes pitcher plants in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. As such, it is classified as a nepenthephile. They are slow-moving spiders which do not actively hunt. Males and females both reach a length of 6 mm.

References

1. ^ Pocock, R.I. 1898. Spiders and pitcher plants. Nature 58: 274–275.

• Clarke, C. 1997. Nepenthes of Borneo. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, p. 39.