Misumenini
Misumenini is a tribe of spiders in the family Thomisidae (crab spiders).[2]
Misumenini | |
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Misumena vatia with fly | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Thomisidae |
Subfamily: | Thomisinae |
Tribe: | Misumenini Dahl, 1913[1] |
Genera | |
Description
The tribe Misumenini belongs to the crab spider family, Thomisidae. As circumscribed by Lehtinen, typical members of the tribe Misumenini have a greenish body and legs (in fresh specimens), and a relatively uncomplicated colour pattern. They have a more-or-less unmodified carapace with only rarely any modifications to the abdomen. Males have palpal tibia with three separate and distinguishable processes (tibial apophyses) (retrolateral, intermediate and ventral). Females have a more-or-less distinct hood to the epigyne, as well as large spermathecae typical of other members of the subfamily Thomisinae.[2]
Genera
In 2004, Pekka T. Lehtinen included the following 19 genera:[2]
- Ansiea Lehtinen, 2004 – Afrotropical
- Cyriogonus Simon, 1886 – Madagascar
- Ebelingia Lehtinen, 2004 – Oriental, east Palaearctic
- Ebrechtella Dahl, 1907 – Oriental, Palaearctic
- Erissoides Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Neotropical
- Henriksenia Lehtinen, 2004 – Oriental, Melanesia
- Ledouxia Lehtinen, 2004 – Madagascar, Mascarene Islands
- Loxoporetes Kulczyñski, 1911 – Oriental, Australian
- Mastira Thorell, 1891 – Oriental
- Mecaphesa Simon, 1903 – Hawaii, other Pacific islands
- Metadiaea Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Neotropical
- Misumena Latreille, 1804 – Palaearctic
- Misumenoides F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Nearctic, Neotropical
- Misumenops F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Nearctic, Neotropical
- Pistius Simon, 1875 – Palaearctic
- Runcinia Simon, 1875 – Palaearctic, Old World tropical
- Runcinioides Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Neotropical
- Uraarachne Keyserling, 1880 – Neotropical
- Zygometis Simon, 1901 – Oriental, Australian
References
- Edwards, G.B. (2017), "Revision of Misumessus (Thomisidae: Thomisinae: Misumenini), with observations on crab spider terminology" (PDF), Journal of Arachnology, 45: 296–323, retrieved 2023-10-23
- Lehtinen, P. T. (2004), "Taxonomic notes on the Misumenini (Araneae: Thomisidae: Thomisinae), primarily from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions", in Logunov, D. V. (ed.), European Arachnology 2003 (Proceedings of the 21st European Colloquium of Arachnology, St. Petersburg, 4-9 August 2003), retrieved 2023-10-23