Taxon details

Family: Thomisidae / Genus: Mecaphesa

Mecaphesa decora (Banks, 1898)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2021-06-02
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030652]
  • Distribution: Mexico, Guatemala
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Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Misumena decora Banks, 1898b: 263, pl. 16, f. 13 (Dmf).
Misumenops volutus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 142, pl. 10, f. 3 (Dm).
Misumenops decorus Gertsch, 1939b: 327, f. 54-55 (mf, removed from S of Misumenops celer, rejecting Chamberlin, 1924b: 652, S of Misumenops volutus).
Mecaphesa decora Lehtinen & Marusik, 2008: 194 (T from Misumenops).
Mecaphesa decora Orozco-Gil & Desales-Lara, 2021: 16, f. 28-29 (m).
References

Banks, N. (1898b). Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (3) 1(7): 205-309. 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

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

Orozco-Gil, M. & Desales-Lara, M. A. (2021). Las arañas (Arachnida: Araneae) del estado de Hidalgo, México: contribución al conocimiento de su biodiversidad. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n. s.) 37(12362): 1-23. doi:10.21829/azm.2021.3712362 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1900). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 89-192, pl. 6-15. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Date Type Reference Detail
2021-06-02 New taxonomic reference entry Orozco-Gil & Desales-Lara, 2021 n/a