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07-08-2010, 03:33 PM
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| | | Spider for ID
Can anyone help to ID this spider please? 
Are those mites of some kind attached to the legs?
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07-08-2010, 05:17 PM
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| | | Re: Spider for ID
That's one of the Harvestmen, opiliones, and those are indeed mites on its legs; don't know whether parasitic or phoretic. |
07-08-2010, 07:52 PM
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Do you have any more images, and an estimation of its body size ? ... |
07-08-2010, 08:07 PM
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Unfortunately that's the only shot I have, and I didn't see the spider myself. I'll try and find out. That is a house brick it's sitting on, if that helps at all. Probably not, since you can only see two sides! |
07-08-2010, 08:14 PM
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I think it's the same chap/lady as can be seen on this page: Harvestman - Daddy Longlegs
The middle image of the group of five about half way down the page. Unfortunately it's not identified. |
07-08-2010, 08:24 PM
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I think from my book that it is Xysticus Cristatus, a common widespread crab spider, except that this one has a very small/shrunken head. This is probably due to what ever parasite is living off of the poor guy.
Last edited by Yorick; 07-08-2010 at 08:27 PM.
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07-08-2010, 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Yorick  I think from my book that it is Xysticus Cristatus, a common widespread crab spider, except that this one has a very small/shrunken head. This is probably due to what ever parasite is living off of the poor guy. | It is not a spider. It is a harvestman. Both have 8 legs, but a spider has two distinct body sections, a harvestman only one. Spiders have 8 or 6 eyes, harvestmen have 2, on a small tubercle on the top. Harvestmen tend to have longer legs, but not all of them. Harvestmen have no fangs, and the palps are different to spiders, male spiders have enlarged palps. |
07-08-2010, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Yorick I think from my book that it is Xysticus Cristatus, a common widespread crab spider, except that this one has a very small/shrunken head. This is probably due to what ever parasite is living off of the poor guy. |
Go back to your book, and look under the section headed Opiliones  ... |
08-08-2010, 11:50 AM
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Woooaaaa. Anyway. OK
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