Flower crab spider

Flower crab spider
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Misumena vatia female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Misumena
Species
M. vatia (Goldenrod crab spider)
Diversity
42 species

Flower crab spiders are crab spiders of the genus Misumena with holarctic distribution.

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.

Species

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Misumena vatia with fly

• 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 — United States, 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

• Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.

External links

• Picture of Misumena species (free for noncommercial use)