Mecaphesa

Taxonomic Hierarchy

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Class: Arachnida
• Order: Araneae
• Suborder: Araneomorphae
• Family: Thomisidae
• Genus: Mecaphesa

Other Common Names

Crab Spiders, Flower Spiders

Author

Eugène Simon, 1900

Sightings Overview

There have been 23 confirmed sightings of Mecaphesa, with the most recent sighting submitted on May 6, 2025 by Spider ID member mahnke. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 23 sightings because of certain Mecaphesa sightings reporting incomplete data.

• Web: 4% of the time, Mecaphesa spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 23)
• Sex: 0 female and 0 male.
• Environment: Mecaphesa has been sighted 20 times outdoors, and 5 times indoors.
• Outdoors: Man-made structure (5). On flower (6). Low foliage (8). Ground layer (1).

Location and Range

Mecaphesa has been sighted in the following countries: United States.

Mecaphesa has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, California, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas.

Seasonality

Mecaphesa has been primarily sighted during the month of April.

• January:
• February:
• March: 2
• April: 10
• May: 8
• June:
• July: 3
• August:
• September:
• October:
• November:
• December: