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Cream Spider with legs over its head and a brown sword on its abdomen - Cheiracanthium

Cream Spider with legs over its head and a brown sword on its abdomen - Cheiracanthium
Austin, Travis County
July 25, 2021
Size: 4-8mm
This small spider was hard to parse. It folds its first two pair of legs over its head, so it looks like they originate on top. When threatened, it waves the long, lower parts of those legs at the intruder like insect antennae. It was on a grass stem about 3 feet up a very tall, narrow grass, but moved out onto the leaf blade to argue with me. It acted pretty fierce but eventually leapt off its leaf and hung by a silken thread. Its eight shiny black eyes were taller than wide, approximately the same size, arranged in 2 rows. Its body is about 5 to 8 mm long, cream colored with a brown cross or sword shape on top of its abdomen. It is sparsely hairy. The spinnerets and the tip of the legs are black/gray.

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