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Slender Crab Spider - Tibellus
Copyright © 2009 Kevin Hall

Slender Crab Spider - Tibellus
Lacey (near Olympia), Thurston County, Washington, USA
August 16, 2009
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Contributed by Kevin Hall on 21 August, 2009 - 12:41pm
Last updated 21 August, 2009 - 2:51pm

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… Kevin Hall, 21 August, 2009 - 2:51pm login or register to post comments

Tibellus
This is a running crab spider in the genus Tibellus. Easily confused with nursery-web spiders, but those do not occur in the Pacific Northwest (except for Dolomedes triton).
… Eric R. Eaton, 21 August, 2009 - 1:44pm login or register to post comments

It looks like a slender crab
It looks like a slender crab spider especially the dots towards the end of the abdomen on either side: http://bugguide.net/node/view/6824
… Sharon and Bill Harris, 21 August, 2009 - 1:43pm login or register to post comments

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