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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Crab Spiders (Thomisidae) » Ground Crab Spiders (Xysticus) » Xysticus luctans
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Crab Spider - Xysticus luctans
Copyright © 2009 tom murray

Crab Spider - Xysticus luctans
Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
May 16, 2009

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Contributed by tom murray on 17 May, 2009 - 12:42pm
Last updated 21 December, 2009 - 5:17pm

Moved
Moved from Ground Crab Spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 21 December, 2009 - 5:17pm login or register to post comments

Xysticus luctans
Xysticus luctans, based on examination of pedipalp and comparison with Dondale & Redner. Striped carapace is characteristic, they report.

-Kevin

… Kevin Pfeiffer, 21 December, 2009 - 4:48pm login or register to post comments

Collecting Xysticus
We need to figure out a system to get a few specimens of these weakly represented BG families into the hands of those willing to do genital determinations...

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 17 May, 2009 - 2:29pm login or register to post comments

 
This one's in alchohol
I just need to find someone to send it to.
… tom murray, 17 May, 2009 - 2:34pm login or register to post comments

Moved
The cephalothorax looks almost identical to Jeff's spider.
… tom murray, 17 May, 2009 - 1:38pm login or register to post comments

Xysticus
is my guess. Compare with Jeff's image here:

… Lynette Elliott, 17 May, 2009 - 1:34pm login or register to post comments

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