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Botha's Hill; Kwa-Zulu Natal; South Africa
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it's one of the flower crab spiders ("Misumena sp."), they can (to a limited degree) change colour in much the same way a chameleon does, although the change takes days rather than seconds. i have seen these (South African one's) in a veriety of colours from yellows to whites to purples/pinks and in-betweens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_crab...
CorduneanuVlad.... your suggestion is a European and North American species, this spotting is a South African species, which doesn't match your suggestion's description (or distribution) sufficiently.
Thank You again!
Thanx Johan.
bayucca: Thanx.
Not perhaps an "Ablepharus sp."?
i lifted it with a pair of tweezers and dropped it onto my palm. no need for it to sting what it's standing on.
in someone's garage.
The exposure has distorted the colours, but Lars is still right, this is a spitter. i catch these nasties often enough to recognise.
N. melanoleucia's colouring is always darker towards the tail, and would still be visible in this shot.
