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Misumena vatia
Authors/Creators
- 1. Geo-Biodiversity and Natural Patrimony Laboratory (GEOBIO), Scientific Institute, Research Centre (GEOPAC), Mohammed V University in Rabat, BP 703, Agdal, 10090, Rabat, Morocco souad. benhalima @ is. um 5. ac. ma, benhalima. souad @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7240 - 0914
- 2. Geo-Biodiversity and Natural Patrimony Laboratory (GEOBIO), Scientific Institute, Research Centre (GEOPAC), Mohammed V University in Rabat, BP 703, Agdal, 10090, Rabat, Morocco souad. benhalima @ is. um 5. ac. ma, benhalima. souad @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7240 - 0914 & Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ledeganckstraat 35, B- 9000 Gent, Belgium rop _ bosmans @ telenet. be; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4705 - 8587 Corresponding author & Geo-Biodiversity and Natural Patrimony Laboratory (GEOBIO), Scientific Institute, Research Centre (GEOPAC), Mohammed V University in Rabat, BP 703, Agdal, 10090, Rabat, Morocco souad. benhalima @ is. um 5. ac. ma, benhalima. souad @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7240 - 0914
Description
10. Misumena vatia (Clerck, 1757)
Misumena vatia; Denis 1956a: 276.
Citations (1): Fès-Meknès: Meknès, Volubilis (Denis 1956a).
Distribution: North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan (World Spider Catalog 2026); Morocco.
Comment: in the World Spider Catalog (2026), Morocco is not yet included as part of the distribution area of the species.
Notes
Published as part of Benhalima, Souâd & Bosmans, Robert, 2026, First catalog of spiders of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae): A critical review of all spider species cited from Morocco with their localities, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 5838 (1) on page 93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5838.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/21148296
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5838.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/21148296 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF97FFA9FFF9FF96FFBD6B160D31FFB0 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/C2D36A59-21F4-4D02-8696-1EF6997651F5 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03AE87D1FFA5FFCAFF2A6EDF0DC1F906 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Clerck
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Thomisidae
- Genus
- Misumena
- Species
- vatia
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Misumena vatia (Clerck, 1757) sec. Benhalima & Bosmans, 2026
References
- Denis, J. (1956 a) Spiders collected in French Morocco by the Durham Colleges Expedition Club. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 126 (2), 275-281. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1956.tb00437.x
- World Spider Catalog (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, Bern. Available from: http://wsc.nmbe.ch, (accessed on January 2026).