Crab Spider ID Please? - Mecaphesa

Moved

Moved from Swift Crab Spider.

… john and jane balaban, 25 February, 2012 - 3:15pm

Crab spider

Fantastic shots!

… Sue Taylor, 4 July, 2007 - 3:44pm

Moved

Moved from Flower Spiders.

… john and jane balaban, 20 September, 2006 - 4:06pm

Misumenops Crab Spider ID

This is a great example of the misumenops celer. The beautiful nearly translucent green, the flattened "U" shaped marking on the cephalothorax and the tri-lobed "Y" shape pattern on the abdomen are good distinguishers. The coloration and intensity of the the patterns vary slightly between environments.

… James Carroll, 19 September, 2006 - 6:40pm

Wow! exciting to hear from someone

who can tell the different species of Misumenops apart. We have a request for you. Could you look through the images which are currently posted under M. celer here and email us the image numbers of any images that you feel are not of M. celer? We will move them off the celer page and back to the genus page. Then can you look through the images that currently reside on the genus pages here and email us the image numbers of any images that you feel are images of M. celer? We will move them from the genus page to the species page.
And then, if you're not exhausted, if you recognize the species of any of the non-celer images, we can create new guide pages for those new species and move those images to their new home.
What a great improvement that will be for the Misumenops images.
Would have emailed you directly, but not enough info on your contributor page. If you click on your name, you will be taken to your contributor page which you can edit and tell us all much more about yourself.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give us.

… john and jane balaban, 20 September, 2006 - 4:03pm

Crab Spider ID

This is a great example of the misumenops celer. The beautiful nearly translucent green, the flattened "U" shaped marking on the cephalothorax and the tri-lobed "Y" shape pattern on the abdomen are good distinguishers. The coloration and intensity of the the patterns vary slightly between environments.

… James Carroll, 19 September, 2006 - 6:37pm login or register to post comments

What a great face!

What a great shot! Now we really say Misumenops. Maybe someone will find a key to them that will allow us to get species IDs for some of our images. Added this image to the identification section here.

… john and jane balaban, 23 April, 2006 - 7:48pm login or register to post comments