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Photo#1367537
Very small crab like bug

Very small crab like bug
Alfred, Alfred, Ontario, Canada
May 11, 2017
Size: Very small

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Not an insect
This has four pairs of legs plus a pair of pedipalps.

What you found is actually a pseudoscorpion. They are arachnids like scorpions, but they lack the metasoma and telson.

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