Strawberry Spider?

l2oBiNl2oBiN Registered Users Posts: 180 Major grins
edited May 4, 2009 in Holy Macro
C&C appreciated. Looking for an Id on this one. (tiny spider <1cm).
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2009
    No idea on ID but lovely capture
    Looks like a water colour illustration :)
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2009
    l2oBiN wrote:
    C&C appreciated. Looking for an Id on this one. (tiny spider <1cm).

    I have no clue what it is either, but it sure does look like a Strawberry <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/eek7.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >
    Did you find it in a Strawberry Patch?

    Very cool shot l2oBiN, never seen one of these before <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/clap.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >
    ... Skippy :D
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  • l2oBiNl2oBiN Registered Users Posts: 180 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2009
    Thnx for the comments guys.
    Skippy wrote:
    I have no clue what it is either, but it sure does look like a Strawberry eek7.gif
    Did you find it in a Strawberry Patch?
    .

    Nope. It was captured by my sibling, I should ask him where he got it from.


    I am still looking for an id.
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  • CoreheadCorehead Registered Users Posts: 210 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2009
    It probably doesn't TASTE like a strawberry though.

    But that's sure an unusual find, there!
  • jaxjax Registered Users Posts: 143 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2009
    Looks like it is a crab spider, possibly Diaea evanida, see here (great Australian site by the way..)
  • sankasanka Registered Users Posts: 11 Big grins
    edited April 12, 2009
    The legs and body shape remind me of a Lynx spider.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/sankax/
  • l2oBiNl2oBiN Registered Users Posts: 180 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2009
    Hmm, not sure if its Diaea evanida as it has a more triangual abdomen and its hairy. It does look somewhat similar though. I beleive it is a flower spider of some sort.
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  • l2oBiNl2oBiN Registered Users Posts: 180 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2009
    Thanks to a friend, I believe the Id for this spider might be "Arcys ZZ293"

    "I believe the spider belongs to the orb weaver family, the genus *Acrys*.
    The shape of the abdomen is akin to many orb weavers (though apparently this
    particular spider doesn't build elaborate webs like most wheel weavers/orb
    weavers."

    http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/australian/araneidae/araneidae.html

    Seems like a rare spider and it does not have a species name... perhaps it should be "Acrys strawberrius"
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