Misumena vatia

species of arachnid
Taxon taxon Q742349
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Summary

Misumena vatia is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.64% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,399 views/month, #1,243 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: spider of the year[3]
  • Taxon rank: species[4]
  • Parent taxon: Flower crab spider[5]
  • Taxon name: Misumena vatia[6]
  • Commons category: Misumena vatia[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Misumena vatia[8]
  • Commons gallery: Misumena vatia[9]
  • Short name: M. vatia[10]
  • Taxon common name: Crab spider[11], Gewone kameleonspin[12], kwietnik[13], 민꽃게거미[14]
  • Taxon author citation: Clerck, 1757[15]
  • Taxon range: Texas[16]

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Identifiers

Misumena vatia's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 55746[17]. Misumena vatia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 1100095[18]. Misumena vatia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1208974[19]. Misumena vatia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2165951[20]. Misumena vatia's ITIS TSN is recorded as 883786[21].

Why It Matters

Misumena vatia has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

FAQs

What awards did Misumena vatia receive?

Honors received include spider of the year[3].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . arages.de. Retrieved . arages.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [18] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [21] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [19] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [20] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . ARKive. wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · CommonsDelinker · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'be', 'bg', 'ca', 'ceb', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi',
    Image → (MHNT) Misumena vatia male.jpg, Crab spider (Misumena vatia) with prey silver-spotted skippe
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Image: Crab spider (Misumena Vatia) with prey silver-spotted skipper (Hesperia comma).jpg, Replacing Crab_spider_(Misumena_Vatia)_with_prey_silver-spotted_ski"
  2. 15w ago · ~2026-37281-32 · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Instance of → taxon
    Great norwegian encyclopedia id → kameleonedderkopp
    Award received → spider of the year
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Great norwegian encyclopedia id: kameleonedderkopp"
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