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Crab spider

Photo by CjCarter
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Field Notes

Description:

Dots on back and red spikes sticking out the sides. White shell covering black body.

Habitat:

Warm climates

Species ID Suggestions

Thorny web builder

Gastrocantha canceriformes
snkr.tlkdr
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crab-looking spider

Gasteracantha cancriformis

Jonathan Sequeira
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Comments (2)
snkr.tlkdr
Very bag photo, however,It is not a Crab spider which falls on family Thomisidae but a thorny web builder belongs to family Araneidae
snkr.tlkdr
It is not a Crab spider which falls on family Thomisidae but a thorny web builder belongs to family Araneidae

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PublishedApril 20, 2011

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