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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 5:55 pm
by Richprins
A really tiny baby spider at Marloth, maybe 8mm?
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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 7:15 pm
by Klipspringer
On the ground?
Or is that a wall?
nice find
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 8:18 am
by Richprins
On the table outside!
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:11 pm
by Klipspringer
Moving?
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:40 pm
by Richprins
Quickly!
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:06 pm
by Klipspringer
Ok, where to?
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:07 pm
by Richprins
The other side of the table...
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:11 pm
by Klipspringer
These spiders usually wait in camo on the bark of tress etc.
Hence my question: What did it do on the table? Fell out of a tree and tried to find another plant?
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 5:40 pm
by Richprins
No tree above...
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 5:56 pm
by Klipspringer
Tmarus sp., bark crab spider
Family: Thomisidae (crab spiders) - crab spiders use their powerful front legs to grab and hold on to prey while paralysing it with a venomous bite.
Tmarus are long-bodied and cryptically coloured in cream to brown mottled greys, browns and black which affords camouflage on bark. They rest on a twig with anterior legs outstretched forward and hind legs tucked in next to body holding on.