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Black Crab Spider - Cymbacha saucia
FAMILY THOMISIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about Black Crab Spiders
that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 7mm
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- This spider has the typical crab spider look,
dark grey to black in colours. It is small in size and not easily be
noticed.
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- Nov 2009 in Anstead Forest, when we were inspecting the tangled web of a house
spider, we found this Black Crab Spider hiding near the edge of the
tangled web (red-circled in the 1st photo above). The Black Crab Spider
might want to steal prey from the web or attack the house spider, we could
not be so sure.
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- On Apr 2010 in Karawatha Forest we found this small Black Crab Spider. On
a gum leaf it tip was folded and attached by silks. We open it a bit and the
spider came out.
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- We found an egg-sac inside and understood that the spider was a
female.
- Reference:
- 1. Cymbacha saucia
- The
Find-a-spider Guide for the Spiders of Southern Queensland, Dr Ron
Atkinson, 2008.
- 2. Cymbacha saucia -
Robert Whyte, Save Our Waterways Now.
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