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Crab spider feeding on a Junonia atlites butterfly in a Zinnia elegans flower. The Thomisidae are a family of spiders, including about 170 genera and over 2,100 species. The common name crab spider is often linked to species in this family, but is also applied loosely to many other families of spiders.
Mecaphesa is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900. [2] Species ... 1900 – Hawaii; Mecaphesa sierrensis (Schick, 1965 ...
Mecaphesa asperata, the northern crab spider, is a species of crab spider in the family Thomisidae, found in North and Central America, and the Caribbean. [1] It is a species of the 'flower spiders', so-called because they generally hunt in similarly coloured flowers for visitors such as bees and flies, and is a much smaller nearctic relative ...
A ground crab spider with earthy coloration. Most species of the genus Xysticus are small to medium sized spiders. They show a sexual dimorphism in size. Females of typical species reach a maximum of 10 millimetres (0.39 in) of body length, while their males are about 3–5 millimetres (0.12–0.20 in) long, about half the size of the females.
As of December 2021 it contains eleven species, found in South and Central America: [1] Epicadus camelinus ( O. Pickard-Cambridge , 1869) – Peru , Bolivia , Brazil Epicadus dimidiaster Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018 – Colombia , Peru, Brazil
Misumenops is a common genus of crab spider with more than 50 described species. [ 1 ] The majority of the species of Misumenops , more than 80, have been transferred to 13 genera: Ansiea , Demogenes , Diaea , Ebelingia , Ebrechtella , Henriksenia , Heriaeus , Mecaphesa , Micromisumenops , Misumena , Misumenoides , Misumessus , and Runcinioides .
Males have a body length male of 3–4 mm, females 5-8.3 mm. [3] The triangle on the carapace and the abdomen are much more elongated in Xysticus ulmi compared to the other Xysticus spiders. The leaf-like pattern (the folium [4]) on the dorsum is brownish with some whitish transverse lines towards the posterior. The legs are marked with fine spots.
Heteropoda venatoria is a species of spider in the family Sparassidae, the huntsman spiders. It is native to the tropical regions of the world, and it is present in some subtropical areas as an introduced species. Its common names include giant crab spider, pantropical huntsman spider or cane spider. [1]