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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) » Xysticus luctuosus
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Xysticus luctuosus (Thomisidae) - Xysticus luctuosus - male
Copyright © 2009 John Sloan

Xysticus luctuosus (Thomisidae) - Xysticus luctuosus - Male
Whitecourt, Alberta, Canada
June 27, 2009
Size: BL = 4mm
Adult male. Identification based on match with palp drawing in Guide d'identification des Araignees (Araneae) du Quebec by Paquin and Duperre, page 235 (2003).

This one was caught in a pitfall trap set in tall grass at the edge of a lawn.
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Contributed by John Sloan on 28 June, 2009 - 2:09am
Last updated 1 July, 2009 - 9:47am

Moved
Moved from Ground Crab Spiders.
… Charley Eiseman, 29 June, 2009 - 11:47pm login or register to post comments

Nice find, John. Comparing yo
Nice find, John. Comparing your image (BTW, you might consider cropping a bit tighter so that more detail is visible) with Lissner's (http://www.jorgenlissner.dk/Thomisidae.aspx) one really begins to get a sense for what the male in this species looks like.

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 28 June, 2009 - 9:14am login or register to post comments

 
Image
cropped
… John R. Maxwell, 1 July, 2009 - 9:48am login or register to post comments

 
Can't crop any more
>you might consider cropping a bit tighter so that more detail is visible

I know, but that's as close as I could crop it without losing detail! If you click on the image, though, you can see the larger version where more detail is visible. I will post a better picture if I find another one of these (this one is in alcohol now), since not all viewers have the option of looking at the larger picture file.
… John Sloan, 28 June, 2009 - 10:15am login or register to post comments

 
> since not all viewers have
> since not all viewers have the option

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. Between you and Tom Murray and myself, we should have quite a collection of Xysticus/Coriarachne/Ozyptila specimens by the end of the summer.

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 28 June, 2009 - 12:18pm login or register to post comments

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