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

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

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. Adult males and females are distinctly different. 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. Some members of the tribe can change body colour in the green-yellow-grey-white range to match the colour of the flower on which they are resting.[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. 1 2 3 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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