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Species Thanatus formicinus

Running Crab Spider - Thanatus formicinus

Running Crab spider. - Thanatus formicinus - female

Tan spider on leaf - Thanatus formicinus

Thanatus in Aurora - Thanatus formicinus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Philodromidae (Running Crab Spiders)

Genus Thanatus

Species formicinus (Thanatus formicinus)

Identification

Female:

Female has two prolateral spines on femur I.

Male:

Range

New England southwest to Alabama and west to the Pacific. All of Canada and Alaska. (1)

Works Cited

1.	How to Know the Spiders B. J. Kaston. 1978. WCB/McGraw-Hill.

Contributed by tom murray on 22 December, 2008 - 8:38pm
Additional contributions by Lynette Elliott, jsloan
Last updated 28 January, 2010 - 2:36pm

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