Misumena bicolor Simon, 1875

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030536

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Described:

Distribution: France (incl. Corsica), Germany, Czechia, Austria, Italy (Sardinia), Tunisia


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m - (Bach et al., 2024)
Taxonomic References
Misumena bicolor Simon, 1875a: 246, pl. 7, f. 2 (Dm) Original description
Misumena bicolor Lehtinen, 2004: 171, f. 86-87 (m, S of Misumena personata; rejected by Breitling et al., 2016b: 70, see Misumena vatia)
Misumena bicolor Breitling et al., 2016b: 70, f. 11 (m, species inquirenda)
Misumena bicolor Bach et al., 2024: 177, f. 1A1-A5, 2A-B, 3A-B, 4A (m)
References

Bach, A., Lauterbach, S., Astrin, J. J., Thorns, H.-J. & Bauer, T. (2024). A master in disguise? The rediscovery of Misumena bicolor Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa 5529(1): 175-185. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5529.1.9 -- Show included taxa

Breitling, R., Bauer, T., Schäfer, M., Morano, E., Barrientos, J. A. & Blick, T. (2016b). Phantom spiders 2: More notes on dubious spider species from Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 52: 50-77. doi: 10.5431/aramit5209 -- 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

Simon, E. (1875a). Les Arachnides de France. Tome seconde. Contenant les familles des Urocteidae, Agelenidae, Thomisidae et Sparassidae. Roret, Paris, 360 pp., pl. 4-8. -- Show included taxa

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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 Comment
2025-07-03 Species distribution update Old value
2024-10-24 New taxonomic reference entry Bach et al., 2024
2024-10-24 Species distribution update Bach et al., 2024 Old value
2016-10-07 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Misumena vatia (Clerck, 1757)
2016-10-07 New taxonomic reference entry Breitling et al., 2016b

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