Trapezoid Crab Spider
S3,Female, profile
Trapezoid Crab Spider
S3,Female, Eye Arrangement
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| Trapezoid Crab Spider S3,Female, profile | | Trapezoid Crab Spider S3,Female, Eye Arrangement | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Spiders (Araneae) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Crab Spider (Thomisidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Trapezoid Crab Spider (Sidymella sp ES01)| This Photo: | S1, Male, Eye Arrangement | Thank you Cael Gallery (Miturgidae), Karen Weaving & (BaronSamedi) for confirming the id of this species for us 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. The male here being ~5.5mm is also slightly longer than 4mm; considered the size of S. trapezia males. While the female is ~7mm. We thought these were Sidymella trapezia, but it seems they are out of range for our semi-arid region (being a more coastal species). Cael kindly lifted it to genus for us and said "S.trapezia was described from Northern Queensland. There are a lot of undescribed species, and this is almost certainly one of them."
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