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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Misumena  Latreille, 1804   4 species

Misumena bicolor Simon, 1875

Description
Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (incl. Corsica), Germany, Czechia, Austria, Italy (Sardinia), Tunisia
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Distribution List
Austria   (Bach et al., 2024) ||| Czechia   (Rückl & Šich, 2024) ||| France   (Bach et al., 2024) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007; Bach et al., 2024) ||| Germany   (Bach et al., 2024) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Bach et al., 2024) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, 2003; Bach et al., 2024) |||
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: 175-185 pdf

Bosmans R (2003) A checklist of the spiders of Tunisia, with description of a new species of Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Kaupia - Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 12: 89-109 pdf

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 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

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 pdf

Rückl K, Šich R (2024) Misumena bicolor pod Radhoštěm – mysteriózní běžník poprvé zastižen v Česku [Misumena bicolor under Radhošť Mountain – the first record of the mysterious species in Czechia]. Pavouk 57: 3 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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