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Anyphaenidae with green abdomen? - female

Anyphaenidae with green abdomen? - Female
Shaw Nature Reserve near Gray Summit, Franklin County, Missouri, USA
September 24, 2009
Size: 9 mm
Not sure about this family placement, but here's the story. I found her on my car and put her in a vial. An hour later she had built a little sac nest in the inside curvature of the vial, but I induced her out of it onto a leaf. A fast runner initially, she slowed down once on the leaf, then stopped for a short while. So I took the first picture (among others) while she was on the upper leaf surface. Then she went to the underside and immediately began to span the curvature of the leaf with silk threads. (Reminded me of Cheiracanthium behavior.)

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Anyphaenidae with green abdomen? - female Anyphaenidae with green abdomen? - female

Here's a specimen with simila
Here's a specimen with similar carapace markings...


I would say "Anyphaena spec." and doubt that you'll get much further with this*, although the especially green color is interesting (celer?).

Platnick (1974) notes the following for Anyphaena in his key to the genera: "carapace usually with two dark paramedian longitudinal bands; chelicerae not produced forward; femora not much darker than other segments."

-K

* Although a close-up, detailed ventral view would certainly help.

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