Nearctic States & Provinces: MO SC TX
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/30595
Misumenoides formosipes (Walckenaer, 1837)
whitebanded crab spider
FAMILY: THOMISIDAE Sundevall, 1833
Genus: Misumenoides F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1900
Species: Misumenoides formosipes (Walckenaer, 1837)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
crab spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
whitebanded crab spider
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA, Canada
Nearctic States & Provinces:
MO SC TX
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & 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.
Recorded Habitats:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
Credit: Murray, Tom
Credit: Dept. Entomology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Misumenoides formosipes Walckenaer 1837 |
| Thomisus flavescens Walckenaer 1837 |
| Thomisus formosipes Walckenaer 1837 |
| Thomisus pardus Walckenaer 1837 |
| Thomisus aleatorius Hentz 1847 |
| Runcinia brendelii Keyserling 1880 |
| Misumena aleatoria Emerton 1892 |
| Runcinia aleatoria Banks 1892 |
| Misumena aleatoria Emerton 1902 |
| Misumenoides aleatorius Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Misumena aleatoria Peelle & Saito 1933 |
| Misumenoides aleatorius Gertsch 1939 |
| Misumenoides aleatorius Chickering 1940 |
| Misumenoides aleatorius Comstock 1940 |
| Misumenoides formosipes Chamberlin & Ivie 1944 |
| Misumenoides aleatorius Kaston 1948 |
| Misumena aleatoria Saito 1959 |
| Misumenoides formosipes Schick 1965 |
| Misumenoides formosipes Dondale & Redner 1978 |
| Misumenoides formosipes Breene et al. 1993 |
| Misumenoides formosipes Lehtinen 2005 |
Taxonomic References†
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.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1944. Spiders of the Georgia region of North America. Bull. Univ. Utah 35(9): 1-267.
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.
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.
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.
Lehtinen, P. T. 2005. Taxonomic notes on the Misumenini (Araneae: Thomisidae: Thomisinae), primarily from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions. In Logunov, D. V. & D. Penney (eds.), European Arachnology 2003 (Proceedings of the 21st European Colloquium of Arachnology, St.-Petersburg, 4-9 August 2003). Arthropoda Selecta, Special Issue 1: 147-184.
Peelle, M. L. & S. Saito. 1933. Spiders from the southern Kurile Islands. II. Araneida from Shikotan. Jour. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Zool. (6) 2: 109-123.
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.
Saito, S. 1959. The Spider Book Illustrated in Colours. Hokuryukan, Tokyo, 194 pp.
Schick, R. X. 1965. The crab spiders of California (Araneae, Thomisidae). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 129: 1-180.
Walckenaer, C. A. 1837. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Paris, 1: 1-682.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/THOMISIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Misumenoides F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1900‡‡
No Other Species
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution