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Crab Spider 1 - Mecaphesa - female
Copyright © 2006 Gayle and Jeanell Strickland

Crab Spider 1 - Mecaphesa - Female
Gloster, Gloster Arboretum, Amite County, Mississippi, USA
May 12, 2006
Size: body length 5.9 mm.

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Contributed by Gayle and Jeanell Strickland on 30 August, 2006 - 8:27pm
Last updated 24 June, 2008 - 10:23am

M. asperatus?
The posting today got me looking at the books and the "Misu-families". Looking at Kaston (Know. 3rd ed) couldn't we at least call this "Misumenops cf. asperatus"?

- short stiff hairs
- ground color yellow or white with reddish markings
- front legs marked with red annuli on tibiae and tarsi
- E. US and southern Canada to Ariz. and no. to Alberta

What might be useful is to acquire a good set of known Misu-specimens, genetically IDed, so that we could familiarize ourselves with the visual variations based on known specimens.
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 7 June, 2008 - 8:57am login or register to post comments

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