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Crab Spider

Thomisus spectabilis

Description:

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.

Habitat:

Usually found in small shrubs and Flowering plants..

1 Species ID Suggestions

Flower Crab Spider
Thomisus sp. Thomisus


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12 Comments

MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 11 years ago

Wow!!!

Sumukha Javagal
Sumukha Javagal 11 years ago

Thank you apple,PongWira and vanhevel..:-)

Sumukha Javagal
Sumukha Javagal 11 years ago

Done Arun..:-)

vanhevel
vanhevel 12 years ago

neat!

PongWira
PongWira 12 years ago

Cool chance!!

Apple
Apple 12 years ago

Great spotting!

Arun
Arun 12 years ago

Please consider putting this spotting in the ‘Hunter’ mission at
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8463...

Sumukha Javagal
Sumukha Javagal 12 years ago

Thank u all..:)

textless
textless 12 years ago

Wonderful photo!

dungeonmasterShu
dungeonmasterShu 12 years ago

Beautiful Spotting

LarryGraziano
LarryGraziano 12 years ago

Increible!!!!

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

Fantastic photo!

Sumukha Javagal
Spotted by
Sumukha Javagal

Karnataka, India

Spotted on Jun 12, 2011
Submitted on Oct 24, 2011

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