Misumena

Taxobox
name = "Misumena"

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Misumena vatia" female
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Thomisidae
genus = "Misumena"
diversity_link = List of Thomisidae species#Misumena
diversity = 42 species
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "M. vatia" (Goldenrod crab spider)

Misumena is a genus of crab spider with holarctic distribution.

"Misumena vatia", the "Goldenrod crab spider", is the largest and most well-known of the North American flower spiders, commonly seen hunting in Goldenrod sprays in autumn. It can change its color between white and yellow to match the flower it is sitting on. The color change takes a few days.

pecies

* "Misumena adelae" Mello-Leitão, 1944 — Argentina
* "Misumena alpha" Chrysanthus, 1964 — New Guinea
* "Misumena amabilis" Keyserling, 1880 — Peru
* "Misumena annapurna" Tikader, 1963 — India
* "Misumena arrogans" Thorell, 1881 — Yule Island
* "Misumena atrocincta" Costa, 1875 — Egypt
* "Misumena beta" Chrysanthus, 1964 — New Guinea
* "Misumena bicolor" Simon, 1875 — Corsica
* "Misumena bipunctata" Rainbow, 1898 — Australia
* "Misumena citreoides" (Taczanowski, 1872) — Guyana, French Guiana
* "Misumena conferta" Banks, 1898 — Mexico
* "Misumena fasciata" Kulczynski, 1911 — New Guinea
* "Misumena fidelis" Banks, 1898 — USA, Mexico
* "Misumena frenata" Simon, 1909 — Vietnam
* "Misumena ganpatii" Kumari & Mittal, 1994 — India
* "Misumena greenae" Tikader, 1965 — India
* "Misumena grubei" (Simon, 1895) — Mongolia, China
* "Misumena indra" Tikader, 1963 — India
* "Misumena innotata" Thorell, 1881 — New Guinea
* "Misumena lorentzi" Kulczynski, 1911 — New Guinea
* "Misumena luteovariata" Mello-Leitão, 1929 — Brazil
* "Misumena maputiyana" Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
* "Misumena maronica" Caporiacco, 1954 — French Guiana
* "Misumena mridulai" Tikader, 1962 — India
* "Misumena nana" Lessert, 1933 — Angola
* "Misumena nigripes" (Taczanowski, 1872) — Peru, French Guiana
* "Misumena nigromaculata" Denis, 1963 — Madeira
* "Misumena oblonga" O. P.-Cambridge, 1885 — Yarkand
* "Misumena pallescens" Caporiacco, 1949 — Kenya
* "Misumena peninsulana" Banks, 1898 — Mexico
* "Misumena picta" Franganillo, 1926 — Cuba
* "Misumena platimanu" Mello-Leitão, 1929 — Brazil
* "Misumena quadrivulvata" Franganillo, 1926 — Cuba
* "Misumena rubripes" Keyserling, 1880 — Peru
* "Misumena spinifera" (Blackwall, 1862) — Madeira, Canary Islands
* "Misumena spinigaster" Mello-Leitão, 1929 — Brazil
* "Misumena tapyasuka" Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Java
* "Misumena terrosa" Soares, 1944 — Brazil
* "Misumena variegata" Keyserling, 1880 — Peru
* "Misumena vatia" (Clerck, 1757) — Holarctic
* "Misumena vazquezae" Jiménez, 1986 — Mexico
* "Misumena viridans" Mello-Leitão, 1917 — Brazil

References

* (2008): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.5. "American Museum of Natural History".

External links

* [http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/subimages.cfm?SUB=13810 Picture of "Misumena" species] (free for noncommercial use)