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Tmarus angulatus (Walckenaer, 1837)

FAMILY: THOMISIDAE Sundevall, 1833
    Genus: Tmarus Simon, 1875

        Species: Tmarus angulatus (Walckenaer, 1837)

Common Names

Family Common Name:  crab spiders
Genus Common Name:  none
Species Common Name:  none

Distribution

Global Distribution: USA, Canada
Nearctic States & Provinces:   QC AZ CO CT MT NH NJ OK SC SD UT
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

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

Philodromus inquisitor Walckenaer 1837
Thomisus angulatus Walckenaer 1837
Tmarus angulatus Walckenaer 1837
Thomisus caudatus Hentz 1847
Tmarus caudatus Keyserling 1880
Tmarus magniceps Keyserling 1880
Tmarus caudatus Emerton 1892
Tmarus angulatus Simon 1895
Tmarus caudatus Emerton 1902
Tmarus angulatus Comstock 1912
Tmarus angulatus Gertsch 1939
Tmarus angulatus Chickering 1940
Tmarus angulatus Comstock 1940
Tmarus angulatus Kaston 1948
Tmarus angulatus Schick 1965
Tmarus angulatus Dondale & Redner 1978
Tmarus angulatus Paquin & Dupérré 2003

Taxonomic References

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.

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.

Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.

Schick, R. X. 1965. The crab spiders of California (Araneae, Thomisidae). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 129: 1-180.

Simon, E. 1895. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 1: 761-1084.

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 Tmarus Simon, 1875‡‡

T. floridensis Keyserling, 1884 ...............USA
T. horvathi Kulczynski, 1895 ...............Palearctic
T. minutus Banks, 1904 ...............USA
T. piger (Walckenaer, 1802) ...............Palearctic
T. rubromaculatus Keyserling, 1880 ...............USA
T. salai Schick, 1965 ...............USA
T. stellio Simon, 1875 ...............Palearctic
T. unicus Gertsch, 1936 ...............USA

‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution