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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Crab Spiders (Thomisidae) » Ground Crab Spiders (Xysticus) » Elegant Crab Spider (Xysticus elegans)
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Elegant Crab Spider - Xysticus elegans
Copyright © 2009 Daniel Spurgeon

Elegant Crab Spider - Xysticus elegans
Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama, USA
May 13, 2009
The spider isn't dead- it bunched itself up after I pushed it around a little trying to get the photo.

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Elegant Crab Spider - Xysticus elegans - male Elegant Crab Spider - Xysticus elegans Elegant Crab Spider - Xysticus elegans
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Contributed by Daniel Spurgeon on 13 May, 2009 - 11:58pm

How does one know?
Hi, Daniel-

My database lists almost 110 species of Xysticus, of which perhaps 80 are Nearctic species. How did you arrive at your determination (which I don't necessarily doubt)?

-Kevin
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 14 May, 2009 - 2:45pm login or register to post comments

 
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Hi Kevin, I browsed through the photos until I found a spider with the appearance and geography of this spider. I was basing it primarily on this photo: http://bugguide.net/node/view/2109/bgimage. Feel free to move it. Thanks again for your help.
… Daniel Spurgeon, 14 May, 2009 - 2:51pm login or register to post comments

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