Misumena vatia (Clerck, 1757)
Description
Prosoma female: white, pale green or yellow, sometimes brownish, eye region mostly yellowish. Male: dark brown to black, median stripe and eye region light brown. Legs dark brown to black, male: dark brown to black, annulated with red-brown. Tarsus yellowish. Opisthosoma female: variable, white, pale green or yellow, roundish, laterally sometimes with red stripes. Male: pale brown, dorsally with 2 dark median bands, laterally darker.
Body length male: 3-5 mmBody length female: 7-11.5 mm
Additional information
colour change in adult specimens due to adaptation to background by displacement of pigments within a few days. Preferably on blossoms, where they mainly capture flower-visiting insects (bees, wasps, hover flies), very well camouflaged. In dry meadows, in sunny forest edges
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Braendegaard 1972a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azheganova 1968)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ono 1988)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ono 1988)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1995)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Braendegaard 1972a)
Habitus
(Ono 1988)
Habitus
(Azheganova 1968)
Epigyne
(Ono 1988)
Epigyne
(Braendegaard 1972a)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Ono 1988)
Vulva
(Azheganova 1968)
Vulva
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Habitus
(Ono 1988)
Habitus
(Roberts 1995)
References
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Roberts M J (1995) Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe. Collins Field Guide Bath
World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.09.2019) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 30-12-2017 | Distribution update | Old value |