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Crab Spider

Thomisus onustus

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Description:

Found this spider in a dune beach (Duna da Cresmina), looked way much green in reality than what it shows in the picture! I'm quite afraid of spiders but this one caught too much of my attention cause I've never seen one of these (:

2 Species ID Suggestions

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Maniacval
Maniacval 10 years ago
Thomisus onustus
Thomisus onustus Thomisus onustus - Ecologia, Taxonomia, Morfologia, Distribuição - Naturdata.com
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DespinaTsafetopoulou
DespinaTsafetopoulou 10 years ago
flower crab spider
Misumena vatia Panoramio - Photo of Lameira - yellow spider "Misumena vatia" Europe spider of the Year 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misumena_vatia or http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Misumena_vatia.html


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2 Comments

Filipa
Filipa 10 years ago

Thank you Manval and DespinaTsafetopoulou for your suggestions ! And thanks Mady (:

mendes.madalena
mendes.madalena 10 years ago

some sort of crab spider? (Thomisidae)

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Filipa
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Portugal

Spotted on Aug 22, 2013
Submitted on Sep 1, 2013

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