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Crab Spider

Thomisus onustus

Photo by Filipa
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Field Notes

Description:

Found this spider in a dune beach (Duna da Cresmina), looked way much green in reality than what it shows in the picture!

I'm quite afraid of spiders but this one caught too much of my attention cause I've never seen one of these (:

Species ID Suggestions

Thomisus onustus

Thomisus onustus

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Maniacval
3

flower crab spider

Misumena vatia

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DespinaTsafetopoulou
1

Comments (2)
Filipa
Thank you Manval and DespinaTsafetopoulou for your suggestions ! And thanks Mady (:

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Portugal's Biodiversity

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PublishedSeptember 1, 2013

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