Taxon details

Family: Thomisidae / Genus: Mecaphesa

Mecaphesa lepida (Thorell, 1877)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-10-14
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030686]
  • Distribution: Canada, USA, Mexico
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Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Diaea lepida Thorell, 1877c: 498 (Dm).
Misumessus lepidus Banks, 1910: 50.
Misumenops lepidus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 412.
Misumenops lepidus Schick, 1965: 122, f. 164, 169-171 (mf, removed from S of Misumenops celer, rejecting Chamberlin, 1924b: 652).
Mecaphesa lepida Lehtinen & Marusik, 2008: 194 (T from Misumenops).
Mecaphesa lepida Jiménez et al., 2024: 201, f. 80-81, 140-141 (m).
References

Banks, N. (1910). Catalogue of Nearctic spiders. Bulletin, United States National Museum 72: 1-80. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jiménez, M.-L., Chamé-Vázquez, D., Palacios-Cardiel, C. & Van Devender, T. R. (2024). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Sky Island Mountains of Sonora: a survey at Rancho Las Playitas, Arizpe and Bacoachi with new species records for Mexico. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 100(3): 175-211. doi:10.3956/2024-100.3.175 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

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

Thorell, T. (1877c). Descriptions of the Araneae collected in Colorado in 1875, by A. S. Packard jun., M.D. Bulletin of the U. S. Geological Survey 3: 477-529. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-10-14 New taxonomic reference entry Jiménez et al., 2024 n/a
2024-10-14 Species distribution update Jiménez et al., 2024 n/a (Old value)