Misumenops Explained

Misumenops is a common genus of crab spider with more than 50 described species.

The majority of the species of Misumenops, more than 80, have been transferred to 13 genera: Ansiea, Demogenes, Diaea, Ebelingia, Ebrechtella, Henriksenia, Heriaeus, Mecaphesa, Micromisumenops , Misumena, Misumenoides, Misumessus, and Runcinioides.

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 (M. dalmasi) on the Marquesas Islands, one M. melloloitaoi on Tahiti, and one M. rapaensis on Easter Island.
• Two species (M. forcatus and M. zhangmuensis) occur in China, M. armatus in Central Asia, M. turanicus in Uzbekistan, M. khandalaensis in India, M. morrisi on the Philippines.
• M. rubrodecoratus occurs in Africa, M. decolor 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

, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:

• Misumenops anachoretus (Holmberg, 1876) – Argentina
• Misumenops armatus Spassky, 1952 – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan
• Misumenops bellulus (Banks, 1896) – USA, Cuba, Jamaica, Virgin Is., Dominica
• Misumenops biannulipes (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil
• Misumenops bivittatus (Keyserling, 1880) – Brazil, Uruguay
• Misumenops callinurus Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
• Misumenops candidoi (Caporiacco, 1948) – Guyana
• Misumenops carneus Mello-Leitão, 1944 – Argentina
• Misumenops conspersus (Keyserling, 1880) – Peru
• Misumenops consuetus (Banks, 1898) – Mexico
• Misumenops croceus (Keyserling, 1880) – Colombia to Paraguay
• Misumenops cruentatus (Walckenaer, 1837) – USA
• Misumenops curadoi Soares, 1943 – Brazil
• Misumenops decolor (Kulczyński, 1901) – Ethiopia
• Misumenops delmasi Berland, 1927 – Marquesas Is.
• Misumenops fluminensis Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
• Misumenops forcatus Song & Chai, 1990 – China
• Misumenops gibbosus (Blackwall, 1862) – Brazil
• Misumenops gracilis (Keyserling, 1880) – Mexico
• Misumenops guianensis (Taczanowski, 1872) – Venezuela, Brazil, French Guiana, Paraguay
• Misumenops haemorrhous Mello-Leitão, 1949 – Brazil
• Misumenops hunanensis Yin, Peng & Kim, 2000 – China
• Misumenops ignobilis (Badcock, 1932) – Paraguay, Argentina
• Misumenops khandalaensis Tikader, 1965 – India
• Misumenops lacticeps (Mello-Leitão, 1944) – Argentina
• Misumenops lenis (Keyserling, 1880) – Brazil
• Misumenops longispinosus (Mello-Leitão, 1949) – Brazil
• Misumenops maculissparsus (Keyserling, 1891) (type species) – Brazil, Argentina
• Misumenops melloleitaoi Berland, 1942 – French Polynesia (Society Is.: Tahiti, Moorea)
• Misumenops mexicanus (Keyserling, 1880) – Mexico
• Misumenops morrisi Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• Misumenops ocellatus (Tullgren, 1905) – Bolivia, Argentina
• Misumenops octoguttatus Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
• Misumenops pallens (Keyserling, 1880) – Guatemala to Argentina
• Misumenops pallidus (Keyserling, 1880) – Colombia to Argentina
• Misumenops pascalis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891) – Panama
• Misumenops punctatus (Keyserling, 1880) – Peru
• Misumenops rapaensis Berland, 1934 – Austral Is. (Rapa)
• Misumenops robustus Simon, 1929 – Venezuela, Peru, Brazil
• Misumenops roseofuscus Mello-Leitão, 1944 – Argentina
• Misumenops rubrodecoratus Millot, 1942 – Sub-Saharan Africa
• Misumenops schiapelliae Mello-Leitão, 1944 – Argentina
• Misumenops silvarum Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
• Misumenops spinifer (Piza, 1937) – Brazil
• Misumenops spinitarsis Mello-Leitão, 1932 – Brazil
• Misumenops spinulosissimus (Berland, 1936) – Cape Verde Is.
• Misumenops splendens (Keyserling, 1880) – Mexico
• Misumenops temibilis (Holmberg, 1876) – Chile, Argentina
• Misumenops temihana Garb, 2007 – French Polynesia (Society Is.)
• Misumenops turanicus Charitonov, 1946 – Uzbekistan
• Misumenops variegatus (Keyserling, 1880) – Peru
• Misumenops varius (Keyserling, 1880) – Colombia
• Misumenops zeugma Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
• Misumenops zhangmuensis (Hu & Li, 1987) – China