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Family Thomisidae, Thomisus sp. ?
Small crab spider to 4mm body length. The spider was hanging down from the vegetation on a 50cms length of web. It was moving around in the light breeze hoping for prey to blunder by.
James Cook University, Cairns QLD
Spotted on Apr 20, 2013
Submitted on Apr 21, 2013
4 Comments
Hi Ali, Ozyptila praticola doesn't occur in Australia. I will keep looking. Cheers!
(Ozyptila praticola) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_spider...
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looks like he's covered in leather - very nice !