Spitting spider - Peucetia viridans

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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Lynx Spiders (Oxyopidae) » Peucetia » Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans)

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Copyright © 2006 Jeff Hollenbeck

Spitting spider - Peucetia viridans -

Apopka, Orange County, Florida, USA
October 28, 2006

Not the first time a lynx has spit on me, but it was the first time I could try to document. The bright, shiny areas on the nail and skin is the venom.
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Spitting spider - Peucetia viridans - female

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Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 29 October, 2006 - 1:27am
Last updated 24 June, 2013 - 10:43am

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