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Photo by KitchilPus
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Field Notes

Description:

Lang 2 front legs.
Red frontal and big body,curbed shaped.
Have spots on both side on the back.

Habitat:

Found inside a web from a much bigger wasp spider who was dead.

Notes:

Found this spider in the web from a wasp spider.
Previous day the wasp spider was still alive.
The wasp spider was dead and this much smalder spider was crawling around over the dead body from the wasp spider.

Species ID Suggestions

Red and silver dewdrop spider

Argyrodes flavescens

Reference Link
ChunXingWong
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Comments (2)
ChunXingWong
These are kleptoparasites of large spiders, like freeloader living in the webs of larger spiders to eat their prey
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PublishedJanuary 21, 2018

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