Spider I.D needed please

[wildherbalian85]

Any ideas???

[Meta menardi]

Not an easy one from the photo, but I would have a dash at Male crab spider, possibly Xysticus cristatus? Timing fits quite well, and it is one of the most common Thomisidae.

[wildherbalian85]

Originally Posted by Meta menardi

Not an easy one from the photo, but I would have a dash at Male crab spider, possibly Xysticus cristatus? Timing fits quite well, and it is one of the most common Thomisidae.

thanks meta. If if will be of any help i can get a close up of this spider...

[Meta menardi]

Originally Posted by wildherbalian85

thanks meta. If if will be of any help i can get a close up of this spider...

As close as you can and as many angles you can do. If it was under my hand, it would be close top, bottom, then palps and epigyne (spider porn, underneath, behind the major body division.)

I just had a day about veteran trees, there were 15 to to ID from small twigs with rather wilted leaves. I didn't score very high, that's not how I see trees. For a good ID you need to see the movement, the habitat, the whole flick that can let you say that this is one thing or the other.

Just had a closer look (bigger screen) I can't sustain the arguement that it is male, part of what I was looking at was part of the victim it is eating.

[No.9 Spider]

I'd agree with Meta menardi on species Xysticus cristatus, though female.




No.9 Spider

[Venger]

Do we have a size?
While X.cristatus is most likely it could also be X.kochi, depends on the size (and obviously the epigyne)
Males tend to have dark femurs and patellas (it's similar on both species)

[wildherbalian85]

Sorry no size >>> it was lunching on a small fly though. My gues it was 4 - 6 mm body (just a guess though)

[wildherbalian85]

So the conclusion is this is a crab spider of sorts??


Thanks peeps

[No.9 Spider]

Conclusion is defintely a Xysticus sp, most likely X. cristatus with a remote chance of it being X. kochi .



No.9 Spider