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Unidentified Spider eating Little Glassywing - Pisaurina mira
Copyright © 2005 Mark Moran

Unidentified Spider eating Little Glassywing - Pisaurina mira
Riverbend Park, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
June 26, 2005
Size: An inch, maybe?
This spider was on the underside of a common milkweed leaf, dining on what appears to be a little glassywing butterfly.
Contributed by Mark Moran on 28 June, 2005 - 4:12pm
Last updated 4 July, 2005 - 1:57pm

Pisaurina mira
This is a washed out version of the species. It's not the grey version I've been searching for. This obfuscation of the pattern has me thinking that there is hybridization. It's not much more than conjecture on my part. Could simply be morphism. Where is the unadulterated grey Pisaurina? Oh where, oh where? P. mira often targets Milkweed for nursery.
… Tom Adams, 28 June, 2005 - 4:31pm

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