Genus Tibellus - Slender Crab Spiders

Classification · See Also

What species of spider is this? - Tibellus

Running Crab Spider - Tibellus oblongus - Tibellus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Philodromidae (Running Crab Spiders)

Genus Tibellus (Slender Crab Spiders)

See Also

Orbweaver - (Larinia)

Tibellus vs. Larinia

Slender Crab Spiders tend to rest with their legs straight forward while Larini sp. rest with their front legs folded back. They also have different eye arrangements, but that is not easy to see.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 7 September, 2004 - 6:57pm
Additional contributions by Lynette, Jeff Hollenbeck, Chuck Entz, kschnei
Last updated 24 May, 2009 - 7:08pm

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