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She is about the size of a pea. I've never seen crab/flower spiders this big in New Zealand before.
Thanks LarsKorb, ChunXingWong. Her abdomen seems less bumpy than the Blue Bush Weaver, more similar to the Cucumber Green Spider, but with the tear drop-shaped neon green marking.
Looks like an Australian species but they are not the same.
http://www.boic.org.au/01_cms/details.as...
It looks pretty much like an Araniella species - the abdomen shape and four spots on it remind strongly of the Cucumber Green Spider - which is not native to NZ...the eye's arrangement speak also for an Araniella.
Spotted on Apr 2, 2012
Submitted on Apr 2, 2012
