Misumenops
Misumenops bellulus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Misumenops
F. O. P-Cambridge, 1900
Diversity
more than 50 species

Misumenops is a common genus of crab spider with more than 50 described species.[1]

The majority of the species of Misumenops, more than 80, have been transferred to 13 genera: Ansiea, Demogenes, Diaea, Ebelingia, Ebrechtella, Henriksenia, Heriaeus, Mecaphesa, Micromisumenops , Misumena, Misumenoides, Misumessus, and Runcinioides.[1][2]

Misumenops bellulus

Distribution

Misumenops callinurus in Brazil

Most species of this genus occur in the Americas from Canada to Argentina, with only a few exceptions:

Name

The genus name is derived from the related crab spider genus Misumena and the Greek ending ops "looks like". This ending is often used to denote closely related or similar looking genera.

Species

As of October 2023, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

  • Misumenops anachoretus (Holmberg, 1876) – Argentina
  • Misumenops armatus Spassky, 1952 – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan
  • Misumenops bellulus (Banks, 1896) – USA, Cuba, Jamaica, Virgin Is., Dominica
  • Misumenops biannulipes (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil
  • Misumenops bivittatus (Keyserling, 1880) – Brazil, Uruguay
  • Misumenops callinurus Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
  • Misumenops candidoi (Caporiacco, 1948) – Guyana
  • Misumenops carneus Mello-Leitão, 1944 – Argentina
  • Misumenops conspersus (Keyserling, 1880) – Peru
  • Misumenops consuetus (Banks, 1898) – Mexico
  • Misumenops croceus (Keyserling, 1880) – Colombia to Paraguay
  • Misumenops cruentatus (Walckenaer, 1837) – USA
  • Misumenops curadoi Soares, 1943 – Brazil
  • Misumenops decolor (Kulczyński, 1901) – Ethiopia
  • Misumenops delmasi Berland, 1927 – Marquesas Is.
  • Misumenops fluminensis Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
  • Misumenops forcatus Song & Chai, 1990 – China
  • Misumenops gibbosus (Blackwall, 1862) – Brazil
  • Misumenops gracilis (Keyserling, 1880) – Mexico
  • Misumenops guianensis (Taczanowski, 1872) – Venezuela, Brazil, French Guiana, Paraguay
  • Misumenops haemorrhous Mello-Leitão, 1949 – Brazil
  • Misumenops hunanensis Yin, Peng & Kim, 2000 – China
  • Misumenops ignobilis (Badcock, 1932) – Paraguay, Argentina
  • Misumenops khandalaensis Tikader, 1965 – India
  • Misumenops lacticeps (Mello-Leitão, 1944) – Argentina
  • Misumenops lenis (Keyserling, 1880) – Brazil
  • Misumenops longispinosus (Mello-Leitão, 1949) – Brazil
  • Misumenops maculissparsus (Keyserling, 1891) (type species) – Brazil, Argentina
  • Misumenops melloleitaoi Berland, 1942 – French Polynesia (Society Is.: Tahiti, Moorea)
  • Misumenops mexicanus (Keyserling, 1880) – Mexico
  • Misumenops morrisi Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • Misumenops ocellatus (Tullgren, 1905) – Bolivia, Argentina
  • Misumenops octoguttatus Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
  • Misumenops pallens (Keyserling, 1880) – Guatemala to Argentina
  • Misumenops pallidus (Keyserling, 1880) – Colombia to Argentina
  • Misumenops pascalis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891) – Panama
  • Misumenops punctatus (Keyserling, 1880) – Peru
  • Misumenops rapaensis Berland, 1934 – Austral Is. (Rapa)
  • Misumenops robustus Simon, 1929 – Venezuela, Peru, Brazil
  • Misumenops roseofuscus Mello-Leitão, 1944 – Argentina
  • Misumenops rubrodecoratus Millot, 1942 – Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Misumenops schiapelliae Mello-Leitão, 1944 – Argentina
  • Misumenops silvarum Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
  • Misumenops spinifer (Piza, 1937) – Brazil
  • Misumenops spinitarsis Mello-Leitão, 1932 – Brazil
  • Misumenops spinulosissimus (Berland, 1936) – Cape Verde Is.
  • Misumenops splendens (Keyserling, 1880) – Mexico
  • Misumenops temibilis (Holmberg, 1876) – Chile, Argentina
  • Misumenops temihana Garb, 2007 – French Polynesia (Society Is.)
  • Misumenops turanicus Charitonov, 1946 – Uzbekistan
  • Misumenops variegatus (Keyserling, 1880) – Peru
  • Misumenops varius (Keyserling, 1880) – Colombia
  • Misumenops zeugma Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
  • Misumenops zhangmuensis (Hu & Li, 1987) – China

References

  1. 1 2 3 "NMBE World Spider Catalog, Misumenops". Retrieved 2023-10-21.
  2. ↑ Lehtinen, P. T.; Marusik, Y. M. (2008). "A redefinition of Misumenops F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 (Araneae, Thomisidae) and review of the New World species". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 14: 173–198.


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