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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Crab Spiders (Thomisidae) » Mecaphesa
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Crab Spider ID Please? - Mecaphesa
Copyright © 2006 bugguy91

Crab Spider ID Please? - Mecaphesa
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
April 23, 2006

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Contributed by bugguy91 on 23 April, 2006 - 6:37pm
Last updated 25 February, 2012 - 3:15pm

Moved
Moved from Swift Crab Spider.
… john and jane balaban, 25 February, 2012 - 3:15pm login or register to post comments

Just Mecaphesa
I don't know if this is celer, but without any justification for it, I'm think that we should move it to the Mecaphesa level. (Lynette, I'm offering a major cleanup of the Mecaphesa, if you've been following my forum thread.)
… Joe Lapp, 25 February, 2012 - 2:10pm login or register to post comments

Not likely celer. Legs far to
Not likely celer. Legs far too stout, pattern doesn't seem right.
… Joe Lapp, 6 July, 2011 - 10:48am login or register to post comments

 
Female celer
How about we leave these females here until we get some mature female voucher specimens?
… Lynette Elliott, 6 July, 2011 - 8:20pm login or register to post comments

 
lol! Am I getting carried aw
lol! Am I getting carried away with my intuition? It's true. I guess I don't know that the females couldn't be more stout than the males.
… Joe Lapp, 6 July, 2011 - 11:26pm login or register to post comments

 
I figure the females are coming...
and I don't doubt your thoughts. But I figure it's better to wait and move once than find out something different and move them out and back in again. =]
… Lynette Elliott, 7 July, 2011 - 9:40am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flower Spiders.
… john and jane balaban, 20 September, 2006 - 4:05pm login or register to post comments

We would guess
Misumenops. Clcik and see what you think.
… john and jane balaban, 23 April, 2006 - 6:45pm login or register to post comments

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