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White Flower Spider

Photo by BarbaraSing
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Field Notes

Description:

White Flower Spider or Crab Spider. Body 1cm long, White dimpled pentagonal abdomen. Displays crab like stance with the larger front two legs, held sideways, ready to catch the prey immediately. When threatened the spider moved quickly at the other site of the grass stem. Family Thomisidae.

Habitat:

Savannah grassland, Kimberley.

Reference Links:

Crab spiders

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Spotted for Missions

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International Spider Survey
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Biodiversity of The Kimberley
Mission
Derby Bioblitz
Photographed
PublishedMarch 15, 2014

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