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Photo by LaurenZarate
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Field Notes

Description:

Large light colored spider about 2 cm in body length. Pale opaque cephalothorax and legs with a white and brown abdomen.

Habitat:

Found on a bush along the highway between San Cristobal and Tuxtla Gutierrez, km 18.5, 1164 meters.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
HemaShah
The eye arrangement,does that offer any clues?
HemaShah
http://bugeric.blogspot.com/2012/05/spider-sunday-slender-crab-spiders-and.html Yes the mid strip is missing.
LaurenZarate
Thank you Hema, it could be a Slender Crab Spider (?) maybe a recently molted one so still lacking the stripe on the cephalothorax? Tibullus sp. of Family Philodromidae (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibellus). This genus can have legs about equal in length. The rest of the family of Running Crab Spiders have the second pair of legs longer than the first, which this one doesn't have. I'm not sure enough to name it.
HemaShah
slender crab spider or running crab spider?

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International Spider Survey
Mission
Mexico Horn of Plenty
Photographed
PublishedSeptember 4, 2016

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