Ground crab spider

thanks for helping with the identification guys

Thanks Gator.

Sorry I cannot help you more. Do not know the spiders in your area of the world. Good luck and your photo was great. It looks fierce for its size.

Gator, I found him on the kitchen floor, nowhere near the garden.

Johan, inderdaad, 'n kort opsomming van sy houding: "mossie, maar man". Ek het bietjie hard op die vloer getik en hom duidelik ontstel.

Dit lyk na 'n redelik dreigende houding!

Not sure of the species in your area but its legs length and position are typical of Crab spider. You do not say where it was found, but I find them in flowers all the time. Crab spider is a common name applied loosely to many species of spiders, but most nearly consistently to members of the family Thomisidae. Among the Thomisidae it refers most often to the familiar species of "flower crab spiders", though not all members of the family are limited to ambush hunting in flowers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_spider...