Misumenops asperatus (Hentz, 1847)
northern crab spider
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FAMILY: THOMISIDAE Sundevall, 1833 Genus: Misumenops F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1900 Species: Misumenops asperatus (Hentz, 1847)  |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
crab spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
northern crab spider
Point Collections & Seasonality
Global Distribution: North, Central America, West Indies
Nearctic States & Provinces: 
QC CO CT MT NH NJ OK PA SC TX UT WY
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Seasonality
Specimen Search
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Natural History & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:† ambushers
†Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280. PDF
Habitat (published): (not yet published or unknown)
Habitat (<30 randomly chosen specimens): apple orchard foliage;
Life & Natural History: (not yet recorded or unknown)
Image(s) of Habitus:
Details About Males
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Details About Females
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Taxonomic References‡
Banks, N. 1907. A preliminary list of the Arachnida of Indiana; with keys to families and genera of spiders. Rep. Indiana Geol. Surv. 31: 715-747.
Banks, N. 1892. The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1892: 11-81.
Breene, R. G., D. A. Dean, M. Nyffeler & G. B. Edwards. 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.
Chickering, A. M. 1940. The Thomisidae (crab spiders) of Michigan. Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. Arts Lett. 25: 189-237.
Comstock, J. H. 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, xi + 727 pp.
Comstock, J. H. 1912. The spider book; a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Garden City, New York, pp. 1-721
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1978. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 5. The crab spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Philodromidae and Thomisidae. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1663: 1-255.
Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Emerton, J. H. 1892. New England spiders of the family Thomisidae. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 8: 359-381.
Gertsch, W. J. 1939. A revision of the typical crab spiders (Misumeninae) of America north of Mexico. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 76: 277-442. 
Gertsch, W. J. 1933. New genera and species of North American spiders. Amer. Mus. Novit. 636: 1-28.
Hentz, N. M. 1847. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 5: 443-478.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Keyserling, E. 1880. Die Spinnen Amerikas, I. Laterigradae. Nürnberg, 1: 1-283.
Muma, M. H. 1943. Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1930. The spiders of Porto Rico. Part three. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 31: 1-191.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greeland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791.
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog
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