Taxon details

Family: Thomisidae / Genus: Mecaphesa

Mecaphesa coloradensis (Gertsch, 1933)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2020-08-23
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030643]
  • Distribution: USA, Mexico
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Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Misumenops coloradensis Gertsch, 1933b: 17, f. 15, 46 (Dmf).
Misumenops coloradensis Gertsch, 1939b: 331, f. 60-61, 66 (mf).
Misumenops coloradensis Schick, 1965: 136, f. 194-196 (mf).
Misumenops coloradensis Breene et al., 1993: 79, f. 81A-B (mf).
Mecaphesa coloradensis Lehtinen & Marusik, 2008: 194 (T from Misumenops).
Mecaphesa coloradensis Jiménez, Palacios-Cardiel & Chávez-Lara, 2020: 16, f. 38-41 (mf).
References

Breene, R. G., Dean, D. A., Nyffeler, M. & Edwards, G. B. (1993). Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, College Station, 115 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. (1933b). New genera and species of North American spiders. American Museum Novitates 636: 1-28. 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. & Chávez-Lara, I. D. (2020). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Medanos of Samalayuca, Chihuahua and new records of species for Mexico. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n. s.) 36(e3612205): 1-23. doi:10.21829/azm.2020.3612205 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

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

External Resource References

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2020-08-23 New taxonomic reference entry Jiménez, Palacios-Cardiel & Chávez-Lara, 2020 n/a