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Xysticus - Xysticus montanensis - male

Xysticus - Xysticus montanensis - Male
Cowichan Valley, British Columbia, Canada
April 17, 2013
Size: ~4.5mm body length
Because the carapace is tall and the palps relatively short, my wire-under-the-patella trick didn't work for straightening out the palps (see here for details on that). Instead I used a setup kinda like this:

where I left much of his front unrestrained. Then I nudged his palp around a bit with a thin wire until he was holding it in a position I could get a shot of.

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