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Genus of spiders
Mecaphesa is a
genus of
crab spiders that was first described by
Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.
[2]
Species
As of November 2022
[update] it contains forty-nine species and one subspecies, found in North America, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, and on
Hawaii :
[1]
Mecaphesa aikoae (Schick, 1965) – USA
Mecaphesa anguliventris (Simon, 1900) –
Hawaii
Mecaphesa arida (Suman, 1971) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa asperata (
Hentz , 1847) – North,
Central America ,
Caribbean
Mecaphesa baltea (Suman, 1971) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa bubulcus (Suman, 1971) –
Puerto Rico
Mecaphesa californica (
Banks , 1896) – USA,
Mexico ,
Hispaniola
Mecaphesa carletonica (Dondale & Redner, 1976) – USA,
Canada
Mecaphesa cavata (Suman, 1971) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa celer (Hentz, 1847) – North, Central America
Mecaphesa cincta Simon, 1900 (
type ) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa coloradensis (
Gertsch , 1933) – USA, Mexico
Mecaphesa damnosa (
Keyserling , 1880) – Mexico,
Guatemala ,
Panama
Mecaphesa decora (Banks, 1898) – Mexico, Guatemala
Mecaphesa deserti (Schick, 1965) – USA, Mexico
Mecaphesa devia (Gertsch, 1939) – USA
Mecaphesa discreta (Suman, 1971) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa dubia (Keyserling, 1880) – USA, Mexico
Mecaphesa edita (Suman, 1971) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa facunda (Suman, 1971) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa gabrielensis (Schick, 1965) – USA
Mecaphesa gertschi (Kraus, 1955) –
El Salvador
Mecaphesa hiatus (Suman, 1971) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa imbricata (Suman, 1971) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa importuna (Keyserling, 1881) – USA
Mecaphesa inclusa (Banks, 1902) –
Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
Mecaphesa insulana (Keyserling, 1890) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa juncta (Suman, 1971) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa kanakana (
Karsch , 1880) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa lepida (
Thorell , 1877) – USA, Canada
Mecaphesa lowriei (Schick, 1970) – USA
Mecaphesa naevigera (Simon, 1900) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa nigrofrenata (Simon, 1900) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa oreades (Simon, 1900) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa perkinsi Simon, 1904 – Hawaii
Mecaphesa persimilis (Kraus, 1955) – El Salvador
Mecaphesa prosper (
O. Pickard-Cambridge , 1896) – Guatemala
Mecaphesa quercina (Schick, 1965) – USA
Mecaphesa reddelli Baert, 2013 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
Mecaphesa revillagigedoensis (Jiménez, 1991) – Mexico
Mecaphesa rothi (Schick, 1965) – USA
Mecaphesa rufithorax (Simon, 1904) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa schlingeri (Schick, 1965) – USA
Mecaphesa semispinosa Simon, 1900 – Hawaii
Mecaphesa sierrensis (Schick, 1965) – USA
Mecaphesa sjostedti (
Berland , 1924) –
Chile (Juan Fernandez Is.)
Mecaphesa spiralis (
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge , 1900) – Guatemala
Mecaphesa velata (Simon, 1900) – Hawaii
Mecaphesa verityi (Schick, 1965) – USA
See also
References
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a
b
"Gen. Mecaphesa Simon, 1900" . World Spider Catalog Version 20.0 . Natural History Museum Bern. 2019.
doi :
10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-10-23 .
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Simon, E. (1900), "Arachnida", in Sharp, D. (ed.), Fauna Hawaiiensis, or the zoology of the Sandwich Isles: being results of the explorations instituted by the Royal Society of London promoting natural knowledge and the British Association for the Advancement of Science , vol. 2