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Genus: Mastira Thorell, 1891 | Family: Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833

Mastira menoka (Tikader, 1963)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030555

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Described:

Distribution: Pakistan, India

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Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India m - (Tikader, 1963e)
Paratype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India 3m - (Tikader, 1963e)

Taxonomic References

Misumena menoka Tikader, 1963e: 254, f. 5a-b (Dm) Original description

Misumena menoka Tikader, 1971a: 38, f. 12H-J (m)

Misumena menoka Tikader, 1980a: 91, f. 127-128 (m)

Mastira menoka Lehtinen, 2004: 170, f. 70 (m, T from Misumena)

Mastira menoka Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2025: 2085, f. 8A-E, 9A-F (mf)

References

Jaffry, K. H., Butt, A. & Zahra, K. (2025). A new species of Prochora Simon, 1886 (Araneae: Miturgidae) and some new records of superfamily Lycosoidea (Araneae) from Margalla Hills National Park, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 57(5): 2079-2087. doi: 10.17582/journal.pjz/20220525050526 -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (2004). Taxonomic notes on the Misumenini (Araneae: Thomisidae: Thomisinae), primarily from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions. In: Logunov, D. V. & D. Penney (eds.) European Arachnology 2003 (Proceedings of the 21st European Colloquium of Arachnology, St.-Petersburg, 4-9 August 2003). Arthropoda Selecta, Special Issue 1, 147-184. -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1963e). Studies on interesting south Indian crab-spiders (Family: Thomisidae). Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Science 58(B): 249-262. -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1971a). Revision of Indian crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae). Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 15(8): 1-90. -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1980a). Thomisidae (crab-spiders). Fauna India (Araneae) 1: 1-247. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-07-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2025
2025-07-22	First description of female	Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2025	Old value
2025-07-22	Species distribution update	Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2025	Old value