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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 funestus
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Big Round Spider - Xysticus funestus - female
Copyright © 2011 Spyderz

Big Round Spider - Xysticus funestus - Female
Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, USA
April 23, 2011
Size: ~1/2"
Additional and full resolution pics of the same specimen available here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/MySpiderPics/GroundCrabSpiderXysticus

Found climbing a tree branch around midnight.

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Contributed by Spyderz on 23 April, 2011 - 5:40pm
Last updated 25 April, 2011 - 9:57am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Lynette Elliott, 25 April, 2011 - 9:57am login or register to post comments

Yours may well be speciesc
unfortunately that hasn't been ID'd yet and may very well be funestrus. But thanks for the reminder. We had forgotten to move those images back to the genus page.
… john and jane balaban, 23 April, 2011 - 8:17pm login or register to post comments

Crab spider in the genus Xysticus.
Maybe X. funestus. See here
… john and jane balaban, 23 April, 2011 - 6:01pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Do you know if there is any way to differentiate a X. funestus from a X. speciesc (see here) without a close up of the epigynum?
… Spyderz, 23 April, 2011 - 6:37pm login or register to post comments

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