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Flower crab spiders are of the genus Misumena with holarctic distribution.

The goldenrod crab spider is the largest and most well-known of the North American flower spiders, commonly seen hunting in goldenrod sprays in autumn. It can change its color between white and yellow to match the flower it is sitting on. The color change takes a few days.

Species

Misumena vatia with fly

• Misumena adelae Mello-Leitão, 1944 — Argentina
• Misumena alpha Chrysanthus, 1964 — New G uinea
• Misumena amabilis Keyserling, 1880 — Peru
• Misumena annapurna Tikader, 1963 — India
• Misumena arrogans Thorell, 1881 — Yule Island
• Misumena atrocincta Costa, 1875 — Egypt
• Misumena beta Chrysanthus, 1964 — New Guinea
• Misumena bicolor Simon, 1875 — Corsica
• Misumena bipunctata Rainbow, 1898 — Australia
• Misumena citreoides (Taczanowski, 1872) — Guyana, French Guiana
• Misumena conferta Banks, 1898 — Mexico
• Misumena fasciata Kulczynski, 1911 — New Guinea
• Misumena fidelis Banks, 1898 — USA, Mexico
• Misumena frenata Simon, 1909 — Vietnam
• Misumena ganpatii Kumari & Mittal, 1994 — India
• Misumena greenae Tikader, 1965 — India
• Misumena grubei (Simon, 1895) — Mongolia, China
• Misumena indra Tikader, 1963 — India
• Misumena innotata Thorell, 1881 — New Guinea
• Misumena lorentzi Kulczynski, 1911 — New Guinea
• Misumena luteovariata Mello-Leitão, 1929 — Brazil
• Misumena maputiyana Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
• Misumena maronica Caporiacco, 1954 — French Guiana
• Misumena mridulai Tikader, 1962 — India
• Misumena nana Lessert, 1933 — Angola
• Misumena nigripes (Taczanowski, 1872) — Peru, French Guiana
• Misumena nigromaculata Denis, 1963 — Madeira
• Misumena oblonga O. P.-Cambridge, 1885 — Yarkand
• Misumena pallescens Caporiacco, 1949 — Kenya
• Misumena peninsulana Banks, 1898 — Mexico
• Misumena picta Franganillo, 1926 — Cuba
• Misumena platimanu Mello-Leitão, 1929 — Brazil
• Misumena quadrivulvata Franganillo, 1926 — Cuba
• Misumena rubripes Keyserling, 1880 — Peru
• Misumena spinifera (Blackwall, 1862) — Madeira, Canary Islands
• Misumena spinigaster Mello-Leitão, 1929 — Brazil
• Misumena tapyasuka Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Java
• Misumena terrosa Soares, 1944 — Brazil
• Misumena variegata Keyserling, 1880 — Peru
• Misumena vatia (Clerck, 1757) — Holarctic
• Misumena vazquezae Jiménez, 1986 — Mexico
• Misumena viridans Mello-Leitão, 1917 — Brazil

• Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
  • Kingdom: Animalia C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
    • Subkingdom: Bilateria (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
      • Branch: Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
        • Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
          • Superphylum: Panarthropoda Cuvier
            • Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
              • Subphylum: Arachnomorpha Heider, 1913
                • Infraphylum: Cheliceriformes
                  • Superclass: Chelicerata
                    • Class: Arachnida Cuvier, 1812 - Arachnids
                      • Subclass: Micrura
                        • Order: Araneae C. Clerck, 1757 - Spiders
                          • Suborder: Opisthothelae Pocock, 1892 - Modern Spiders
                            • Infraorder: Araneomorphae Smith, 1902
                              • Superfamily: Thomisoidea
                                • Family: Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833 - Crab Spiders
                                  • Genus: Misumena Latreille, 1804 - a genus of Crab Spiders (Thomisidae)