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Genus Diaea

Green, candy sprinkles Crab Spider - Diaea livens

Diaea livens - front - Diaea livens - male

Pretty green, red, and yellow spider - Diaea livens

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Thomisidae (Crab Spiders)

Genus Diaea

Numbers

The two species in the US are livens and seminola.

Range

livens - found in CA

seminola - USA (specific range not known by BugGuide at this time. Gertsch(1) only lists a type specimen from Florida)

Internet References

(1) www.jorgenlissner.dk/Thomisidae.aspx - Description of genus.

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the typical crab spiders (Misumeninae) of America north of Mexico Willis J. Gertsch. 1939. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 76: 277-442.

Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 18 May, 2008 - 9:20am
Additional contributions by Lynette Elliott, chuuuuung
Last updated 22 November, 2020 - 3:38pm

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