![]() | Trapezoid Crab Spider Male, palps | Trapezoid Crab Spider Male, leg waving | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida) | ||||
Order: | Spiders (Araneae) | ||||
Family: | Crab Spider (Thomisidae) | ||||
Species: | Trapezoid Crab Spider (Sidymella cf trapezia) | ||||
This Photo: | Male, spinnerets | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Anthony Paul told us about Sidymella longipes, which is very similar, but larger at just under 15mm. This one being ~5.5mm is also slightly longer than 4mm; considered the size of S. trapezia males. | |||||
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