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- This page contains pictures and information about Lynx Spiders that we found
in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Lynx Spiders have good vision although their eyes are relatively
small. They have eight eyes,
in the pattern four rows of two. They are from small to medium in size. They have a long body and long thin legs. Legs are
covered with long spines.
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- Lynx Spiders can be found in trees or on grasses, usually on the top of the
plants. They are active in day time for hunting small insects. They hunt in the ways like a cat, i.e.,
slowly approach the prey and suddenly jump to it. So the spiders have their name Lynx.
Lynx Spiders are active during the day,
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- Eyes in four rows of two
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- Common Lynx Spider
  - Oxyopes quadrifasciatus, leg to leg 20mm, female Male
- Lynx Spiders are long legs spiders, small in size. The spiders are
common in Brisbane garden. They do not build web but hunt small insects
on plants. We have more information and pictures in this page.
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- Elegant Lynx Spider
 - Oxyopes elegans, leg to leg 20mm
- Elegant Lynx Spiders are small in size, long legs spiders with medium size
abdomen. This spider is not as
common as the Common Lynx Spider above in Brisbane garden. They are pale
brown in colour and larger in size. Please click on here
for more pictures and information.
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- Yellow Lynx Spider
 - Oxyopes variabilis, leg to leg 20mm
- Pictures were taken on 21 Oct 2007. Check this page
for more infromation.
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- Red Lynx Spider
 - Oxyopes rubicundus, female body length 10mm, male 8mm
- We found this spider when it was hanging in mid- air and holding a jewel beetle as prey.
The spider has a dark pattern on its creamy pale brown abdomen. There is the
dark red pattern on each side. Please check this page
for more information about this spider.
- Reference:
- 1. A Guide to Australian Spiders - Densey Clyne, Melbourne, Nelson
1969, p43.
- 2. Family
OXYOPIDAE Thorell, 1870 - Australian Faunal Directory, Australian
Biological Resources Study.
- 3. Spiders - family Oxyopidae
- Nick Monaghan, lifeunseen.com.
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