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Northern Crab Spider

Mecaphesa asperata

1 Species ID Suggestions

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago


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2 Comments

SpiderJoe
SpiderJoe 11 years ago

I think this is more likely M. dubia, because of the multi-tone abdomen. M. asperata more commonly has the wide longitudinal bands on the carapace, but I did find one M. dubia that did as well:

http://bugguide.net/node/view/525808/bgi...

BTW, I'm the go-to guy for the flower Thomisids on BugGuide -- they rely on my findings to make their determinations.

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

Nice!

SusanEllison
Spotted by
SusanEllison

Houston, Texas, USA

Spotted on Feb 29, 2012
Submitted on Feb 29, 2012

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