Misumenops candidoi ( Caporiacco, 1948 )

Marusik, Yuri M., 2025, On six poorly known species of Thomisidae (Arachnida: Araneae) described by Ludovico di Caporiacco, Zootaxa 5723 (3), pp. 437-443 : 438-439

Misumenops candidoi ( Caporiacco, 1948)

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Metadiaea mello-leitaoi Caporiacco, 1947: 27 ( ♀).

Metadiaea candidoi Caporiacco, 1948: 695 ( ♀, nomen novum pro M. mello-leitaoi Caporiacco, 1947 preocc., non M. mello-leitaoi Piza, 1933 ).

Types examined: Syntypes 2 ♀ from GUYANA: Canister Falls , Demerara, 4°47′36″N, 58°26′23″W, November 1931, leg. N. Beccari ( MZUF 539 ) .

Comments. This species has been treated in only two publications and has never been illustrated. Originally placed in Metadiaea Mello-Leitão, 1929 (a genus currently considered monotypic), its habitus and epigyne are dissimilar to those of the generotype, M. magnus ( Keyserling, 1880) . Instead, they resemble Misumenoides sensu Lehtinen & Marusik (2008) , although these authors did not study the type species of Misumenoides . When describing the species, Caporiacco overlooked the ventral spines on the metatarsi of legs III and IV.

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FIGURE 3. Misumenops candidoi. Syntype female. A−B Habitus (A dorsal, B ventral); C—Epigyne, ventral.