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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Lynx Spiders (Oxyopidae) » Oxyopes » Western Lynx Spider (Oxyopes scalaris)
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Lynx Spider - Oxyopes scalaris - male
Copyright © 2005 Marion Cronen

Lynx Spider - Oxyopes scalaris - Male
Union, Union County, Oregon, USA
May 18, 2005
This was a tiny little spider that I took a pic of when i was bored trying to get pics of butterflies and I didnt even know it was eating a grasshopper till I loaded the pics on my computer .. does anyone know what it is ???...
Thanks in advance..
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Contributed by Marion Cronen on 13 June, 2005 - 12:53am
Last updated 12 April, 2006 - 7:44pm

Strange angle,
but it might be Lynx check here
… john and jane balaban, 13 June, 2005 - 10:47am login or register to post comments

 
I agree.
Definitely a lynx spider, and a male, as evidenced by those big, swollen palps he's holding his prey with. Welcome, Marion, from a former Oregonian (I grew up in Portland).
… Eric R. Eaton, 13 June, 2005 - 1:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
ya that looks like him .. i was looking straight down on the leaf when i noticed him and took the pic .. i can get my camera within 1.2 inches from the subject
thanks again
… Marion Cronen, 13 June, 2005 - 12:12pm login or register to post comments

Leafhopper
Not the spider, the prey. Spiders are outside my interest and expertise I'm afraid to say, so I can't help you there.
… Jim McClarin, 13 June, 2005 - 4:51am login or register to post comments

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