Spider That Looks Like A Hermit Crab
Olivia Luz
These are often called thomisid crab spiders or simply thomsids.
They are not like the other spiders. But its two front legs are a lot longer and more powerful than the rest. They are a very colorful easily recognized spider. A crab spider just like a real crab moves in a sideward direction when it feels threatened or provoked.
The spineybacked orb weaver spider also known as the crab like orbweaver and the spiny orbweaver get their common name from the spines that protrude from their abdomen and their body shape that generally looks like that of a crab. Photograph by andrei sourakov florida museum of natural history. They have legs which can rotate from the base. It has eight legs like all spiders.
The spinybacked orbweaver gasteracantha cancriformis linnaeus in its web. Crab spiders vary from one another in color. Unknown spider looks like a hermit crab or something araneus bicentenarius lytton springs bastrop county texas usa june 20 2004 if you can tell me what kind of spider this is it would be greatly appreciated. Thomisids tend to have a flat shape compared to other spiders and their front two pairs of legs are typically very long compared to the back two pairs.
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The colloquial name for this spider in parts of florida is crab spider although it is not related to any of the families of spiders commonly called crab spiders e g thomisidoe. The most commonly encountered crab spiders found in kentucky are in the family thomisidae. The crab spiders have extremely powerful front two legs that makes it very easy for them to hold things. It has a broad round cephalothorax attached to a huge opisthosoma abdomen that has pronounced corners sticking out to make it look like a delicious pork dumpling.
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