Misumenops

Misumenops
	Misumenops bellulus
Scientific classification
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 Mesumenops, 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[]

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

Sixteen species are found on Hawaii, one () on the Marquesas Islands, one on Tahiti, and one on Easter Island.
Two species ( and ) occur in China, in Central Asia, in Uzbekistan, in India, on the Philippines, M. nepenthicola in Singapore and Borneo.
occurs in Africa, only in Ethiopia.

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[]

These 58 species belong to the genus Misumenops, as of 2018:^[1]

(Holmberg, 1876)^{i c g}
Spassky, 1952^{i c g}
Misumenops bellulus (Banks, 1896)^{i c g b}
(Mello-Leitão, 1929)^{i c g}
(Keyserling, 1880)^{i c g}
Mello-Leitão, 1929^{i c g}
(Caporiacco, 1948)^{i c g}
Mello-Leitão, 1944^{i c g}
(Keyserling, 1880)^{i c g}
(Banks, 1898)^{i c g}
(Keyserling, 1880)^{i c g}
(Walckenaer, 1837)^{i c g}
Soares, 1943^{i c g}
Berland, 1927^{i c g}
(Kulczynski, 1901)^{i c g}
Berland, 1927^g
Mello-Leitão, 1929^{i c g}
Song & Chai, 1990^{i c g}
(Blackwall, 1862)^{i c g}
(Keyserling, 1880)^{i c}
(Taczanowski, 1872)^{i c}
Mello-Leitão, 1949^{i c g}
Yin, Peng & Kim, 2000^{c g}
(Badcock, 1932)^{i c g}
(Walckenaer, 1837)^{c g}
Tikader, 1965^{i c g}
(Mello-Leitão, 1944)^{i c g}
(Keyserling, 1880)^{i c g}
(Mello-Leitão, 1949)^{i c g}
(Keyserling, 1891)^{i c g}
Berland, 1942^{i c g}
(Keyserling, 1880)^{i c g}
Barrion & Litsinger, 1995^{i c g}
Misumenops nepenthicola (Pocock, 1898)^{i c g}
(Tullgren, 1905)^{i c g}
Mello-Leitão, 1941^{i c g}
(Keyserling, 1880)^{i c g}
(Keyserling, 1880)^{i c g}
(Mello-Leitão, 1932)^{i c g}
(O. P.-Cambridge, 1891)^{i c g}
(Keyserling, 1880)^{i c}
Berland, 1934^{i c g}
Simon, 1929^{i c g}
Mello-Leitão, 1944^{i c g}
Millot, 1942^{i c g}
Mello-Leitão, 1944^{i c g}
Mello-Leitão, 1929^{i c g}
(Piza, 1937)^{i c g}
Mello-Leitão, 1932^{i c g}
(Berland, 1936)^{i c g}
(Keyserling, 1880)^{i c g}
(Holmberg, 1876)^{i c g}
Garb, 2007^{i c g}
Charitonov, 1946^{i c g}
(Keyserling, 1880)^{i c g}
(Keyserling, 1880)^{i c}
Mello-Leitão, 1929^{i c g}
(Hu & Li, 1987)^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS,^[3] c = Catalogue of Life,^[4] g = GBIF,^[5] b = Bugguide.net^[6]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c "NMBE World Spider Catalog, Misumenops". Retrieved 2018-05-06.
^ 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.
^ "Misumenops Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
^ "Browse Misumenops". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
^ "Misumenops". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
^ "Misumenops Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-09.

[spiders-1] "NMBE World Spider Catalog, Misumenops". Retrieved 2018-05-06.

[lehtinen-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.

[itis-3] "Misumenops Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-09.

[catlife-4] "Browse Misumenops". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-09.

[gbif-5] "Misumenops". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-09.

[bugref-6] "Misumenops Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-09.

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