Striped Lynx Spider (Female)

Description:

This female Striped Lynx Spider is guarding her eggs. Oxyopes javanus Thorell, 1887, of class Arachnida, order Araneae, superfamily Lycosoidea, family Oxyopidae. Oxyopes javanus measures 7 to 10 mm long. Its eyes are arranged in three distinct rows. It has diagonal or longitudinal bands on the long and elongated abdomen. Its legs are brown, long, slender, and spinous. It has a three-clawed tarsus. Oxyopes female, like this spotting, has two pairs of diagonal white bands on the sides of the abdomen. Lynx spiders are direct hunters. They do not build webs. A female spider can produce as many as 200 to 350 spiderlings in her lifetime of 3 to 5 months. (knowledgebank.irri.org)

Habitat:

Untended open space near hot spring resort houses.