Taxon details

Family: Thomisidae / Genus: Mecaphesa

Mecaphesa californica (Banks, 1896)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030634]
  • Distribution: USA, Mexico, Hispaniola
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Taxonomic references
Misumena californica Banks, 1896b: 91 (Df).
Misumessus pallidulus Banks, 1904a: 112, f. 8 (Df).
Misumenops californicus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 410.
Misumenops pallidulus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 413.
Misumenops californicus Gertsch, 1939b: 326, f. 52-53, 67 (f).
Misumenops californicus Schick, 1965: 127, f. 7, 168, 172-173, 175-177 (f, Dm).
Misumenops californicus Penney, 2004a: 187, f. 4 (f).
Mecaphesa californica Lehtinen & Marusik, 2008: 194 (Tmf from Misumenops).
Mecaphesa californica Jiménez & Palacios-Cardiel, 2012a: 650, f. 1a-c (mf).
References

Banks, N. (1896b). New Californian spiders. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 4: 88-91. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1904a). New genera and species of Nearctic spiders. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 12: 109-119. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. (1939b). A revision of the typical crab spiders (Misumeninae) of America north of Mexico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 76: 277-442. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jiménez, M. L. & Palacios-Cardiel, C. (2012a). Registros nuevos de arañas para el estado de Baja California, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n. s.) 28(3): 649-658. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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(4): 173-198. doi:10.13156/100.014.0406 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Penney, D. (2004a). New extant and fossil Dominican Republic spider records, with two new synonymies and comments on taphonomic bias of amber preservation. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 9: 183-190. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schick, R. X. (1965). The crab spiders of California (Araneae, Thomisidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 129(1): 1-180. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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