Henriksenia nepenthicola
| Misumenops nepenthicola | |
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| Species: | M. nepenthicola
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Misumenops nepenthicola is a species of crab spiders. It lives inside the pitchers of a number of lowland Nepenthes pitcher plants in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. As such, it is classified as a nepenthephile. They are slow-moving spiders which do not actively hunt. Males and females both reach a length of 6 mm.
References
- ^ Pocock, R.I. 1898. Spiders and pitcher plants. Nature 58: 274–275.
- Clarke, C. 1997. Nepenthes of Borneo. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, p. 39.