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Green & Red Long-jawed Spider

Tetragnatha hasselti

Photo by Richard Ong
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

male - commonly called stretch spiders... referring to their elongated body form. when disturbed... they will stretch their front legs forward and the others in the other direction... thus being able to hide on blades of grass or similar elongated substrates. they are able to run over water.

Notes:

Araneae; Tetragnathidae; Tetragnathinae

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Richard Ong
@Mark Ridgway thanks... and the pleasure is mine.!
Mark Ridgway
Super series again Richard. Thanks for sharing.

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International Spider Survey
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Mimetic Animals of the World
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PublishedJuly 29, 2019

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