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Green Crab Spider

Photo by ChunXingWong
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Field Notes

Description:

A tiny Thomisidae, Crab Spider with yellow head, green abdomen, and yellowish green legs.
Male.
About 5mm from forehead to the tip of its tail.

Habitat:

Sabah Tea Gaden, Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia.

Notes:

While searching for new species of spiders in Sabah Tea Garden, this little guy crawl up to me to my hand when I walked past the tea plantation.
I was excited because I have never seen this species before (even in the Internet).
If this is a new species, I'll name its common name "Green Tea Crab Spider".
2nd photo taken from my dad.
>>>Map accuracy : 100m diameter.

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Comments (7)

Thank you MayraSpringmann and Gustavo Carneiro.
Beautiful green one! not sure about 'Araneus Cucurbitina' found this at, but this one's abdomen looks bigger - http://encyclo.voila.fr/wiki/Araniella_cucurbitina http://www.anje.co.uk/spider.html

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