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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Crab Spiders (Thomisidae) » Mecaphesa » possible celer (Mecaphesa possible celer)
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yellow crab spider - Mecaphesa
Copyright © 2012 Mark H Brown

yellow crab spider - Mecaphesa
Cayler Stater Prairie Preserve, Dickinson County, Iowa, USA
May 20, 2012
Size: 11 mm legspan
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Contributed by Mark H Brown on 5 June, 2012 - 11:35pm
Last updated 25 August, 2012 - 8:42am

Moved
Moved from Mecaphesa.
… john and jane balaban, 25 August, 2012 - 8:42am login or register to post comments

Possible celer
So far all my yellow ones have been Mecaphesa celer. they even have the two dark posterior stripes that this one has. I haven't had one with quite this heart mark though. I say we call this "possible celer" for now.
… Joe Lapp, 24 August, 2012 - 9:15pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… john and jane balaban, 7 June, 2012 - 11:21pm login or register to post comments

Looks to be a Mecaphesa
We don't know if Joe has found out anything about the yellow ones yet or not.
… john and jane balaban, 6 June, 2012 - 12:55am login or register to post comments

 
Mecaphesa
I'm working on a bunch of spiders that look similar to this. I don't have confidence in my keying of the females, so I'm raising offspring. I've had a heck of a time feeding the spiderlings for these spiders and of about 100 have only two that survived. I sure hope one of them is a male. The adults would only eat flies and not crickets. We can just call them Mecaphesa for now.
… Joe Lapp, 7 June, 2012 - 11:17pm login or register to post comments

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