Misumenini

Misumenini is a tribe of spiders in the family Thomisidae (crab spiders).[2]

Misumenini
Misumena vatia with fly
Scientific classification Edit this 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

See text.

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]

References

  1. 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
  2. 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
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