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Yellow Crab Spider

Thomisus onustus

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Description:

Thomisus onustus is a crab spider species in the genus Thomisus belonging to the family Thomisidae. The pictured yellow female was spotted while guarding her egg sac, carefully folded in between the petals of a yellow Glebionis coronaria flower. Spotted in Volos city, Greece.

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Thomisus onustus - Wikipedia

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International Spider Survey
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Biodiversity of Greece (Hellas)
Mission
Parental care in insects and other invertebrates
Mission
Nature in Yellow
Mission
Spiders of Greece

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PublishedOctober 26, 2019

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