High-browed Crab Spider
Male, ventral
Ellura
Spotted Black Crab Spider
Male, profile
 
                      
Spotted Black Crab Spider (Tharpyna cf campestrata)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)
Order: Spiders (Araneae)
Family: Crab Spider (Thomisidae)
Species: Spotted Black Crab Spider (Tharpyna cf campestrata)
This Photo:     Male, dorsal, ~5mm

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere

Copyright © 2016-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 07-Dec-2016
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.