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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Crab Spiders (Thomisidae) » Misumenoides » Whitebanded Crab Spider (Misumenoides formosipes)
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Sac Spider - Misumenoides formosipes
Copyright © 2012 Hank Ghiolod

Sac Spider - Misumenoides formosipes
Tuxedo-Elks Pen Harriman SP, Orange County, New York, USA
July 3, 2012
Thank You Soneone said this was a Tick but they are darker i think
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Contributed by Hank Ghiolod on 4 July, 2012 - 5:51am
Last updated 27 August, 2012 - 8:39am

Moved
Moved from Crab Spiders.
… john and jane balaban, 27 August, 2012 - 8:39am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… john and jane balaban, 15 July, 2012 - 10:22am login or register to post comments

Crab Spider
It looks like a Misumenoides formosipes - Whitebanded Crab Spider.

Moved from ID Request.
… Lynette Elliott, 4 July, 2012 - 10:09am login or register to post comments

 
Misumenoides formosipes
I agree. No carapace spines makes it that or Misumena, and the abdominal pattern does not fit Misumena vatia.
… Joe Lapp, 27 August, 2012 - 12:02am login or register to post comments

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