Mecaphesa lepida (Thorell, 1877)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030686

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA, Mexico

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Taxonomic References
Diaea lepida Thorell, 1877c: 498 (Dm) Original description
Misumessus lepidus Banks, 1910: 50
Misumenops lepidus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 412
Misumenops lepidus Schick, 1965: 122, f. 164, 169-171 (mf, removed from S of Misumenops celer, rejecting Chamberlin, 1924b: 652)
Mecaphesa lepida Lehtinen & Marusik, 2008: 194 (T from Misumenops)
Mecaphesa lepida Jiménez et al., 2024: 201, f. 80-81, 140-141 (m)
References

Banks, N. (1910). Catalogue of Nearctic spiders. Bulletin, United States National Museum 72: 1-80. -- Show included taxa

Jiménez, M.-L., Chamé-Vázquez, D., Palacios-Cardiel, C. & Van Devender, T. R. (2024). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Sky Island Mountains of Sonora: a survey at Rancho Las Playitas, Arizpe and Bacoachi with new species records for Mexico. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 100(3): 175-211. doi: 10.3956/2024-100.3.175 -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. & Marusik, Y. M. (2008). A redefinition of Misumenops F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 (Araneae, Thomisidae) and review of the New World species. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14(4): 173-198. doi: 10.13156/100.014.0406 -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa

Schick, R. X. (1965). The crab spiders of California (Araneae, Thomisidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 129(1): 1-180. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1877c). Descriptions of the Araneae collected in Colorado in 1875, by A. S. Packard jun., M.D. Bulletin of the U. S. Geological Survey 3: 477-529. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2024-10-14 New taxonomic reference entry Jiménez et al., 2024
2024-10-14 Species distribution update Jiménez et al., 2024 Old value

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