Mecaphesa is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.[2]
| Mecaphesa | |
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| M. asperata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Mecaphesa Simon, 1900[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. cincta Simon, 1900
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| Species | |
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Species edit
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 i. belkini (Schick, 1965) – 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 edit
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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