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30-04-2011, 09:52 PM
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could someone ID this for me, need a name before I put a photograph in the Gallery, had a scan on here and through my Collins Field guide on Spiders and now I'm seeing spiders in front of my eyes, just not mine! 
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30-04-2011, 10:03 PM
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It is a crab spider but I would not like venture any further than that. IDing spiders from photos of their upper surface patterns is like IDing cars by their tyre marks.
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30-04-2011, 10:28 PM
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I like the analogy with car and car tyres!
Looks like in future I'll have to get them to lay on their backs. 
Thanks Meta menardi I thought it was a crab of some sort, just need someone to fill in the 'sort' bit?
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03-05-2011, 08:43 AM
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Just a wild guess, but Xysticus, perhaps?
Cheers. Nik.
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03-05-2011, 06:40 PM
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Well the easy bit is that it is female.
It certainly looks like Xysticus and that triangular dark marking on the carapace which ends in a blackish mark at the apex is typical for X. cristatus.
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03-05-2011, 08:27 PM
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hey thanks guys for the info, much appreciated, in future I must do better
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Originally Posted by turkeyneck  hey thanks guys for the info, much appreciated, in future I must do better | No, please don't think of it in that way. You have seen and ID'd a crab spider, taken an interesting photo and engendered a discussion that has brought up some of the problems of getting spders to species level.
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