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crab spider - Xysticus elegans - female
Copyright © 2012 tom murray

crab spider - Xysticus elegans - Female
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
May 27, 2012
Size: 8.5mm

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crab spider - Xysticus elegans - female crab spider - Xysticus elegans - female
Contributed by tom murray on 28 May, 2012 - 10:10pm
Last updated 18 November, 2022 - 3:46pm

Moved
Moved from Ground Crab Spiders.
Thanks Kevin. That pattern and good size should make it easy to identify these spiders in the future.
… tom murray, 5 July, 2012 - 7:15pm

Xysticus elegans
X. elegans -- nice specimen; big beautiful spiders. The females seem to characteristically have this typical striking dorsal pattern and a sort of "sandy" appearance ventrally; and then the big open atrium.

Record: kmp-10100

-Kevin
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 5 July, 2012 - 3:32pm

Moved
Moved from Crab Spiders.
… tom murray, 29 May, 2012 - 7:59am

Yes,
Xysticus, but we don't know which one
… john and jane balaban, 28 May, 2012 - 11:56pm

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