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Photo#946732
D. livens - Diaea livens

D. livens - Diaea livens
Redwood City, Stulsaft Park, San Mateo County, California, USA
June 28, 2014
Size: 3.5 mm
I swept this immature crab spider from some horsetails by a creek.

Strange...same exact photo posted on iNat from North Carolina!
Hi Ken. I recently became interested in & started studying this species after photographing it in Henry Cowell St Park near Santa Cruz. I was puzzled by recent synonymies (i.e. from 1990's) suggesting it was introduced into CA from Europe (because the back-story seemed odd...see "Remarks" on info page). So I became interested in its distribution.

I found recent catalogs that indicate there are two species currently recognized & recorded from the Neartic (e.g. here and here)...namely D. livens known only from CA; and D. seminole known only from FL. So I thought I'd study the iNat posts from elsewhere to see if I could tell whether they were mis-ID's or potential range extensions.

While doing so I was struck by a post by "forestscout" from South Carolina that looked like a real good match for D. livens. Only later did I realize it appears to be the same exact photo as yours posted here!

 
Whoa -
thanks for letting me know, Aaron! I'll try to get the other one removed or corrected.