Trapezoid Crab Spider
S3,Female, ventral
Undescribed Bark Crab Spider
S2, male, dorsal
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| Trapezoid Crab Spider S3,Female, ventral | | Undescribed Bark Crab Spider S2, male, dorsal | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Spiders (Araneae) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Crab Spider (Thomisidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Undescribed Bark Crab Spider (Stephanopinae sp ES01)| This Photo: | 🔍S1, male, dorsal🔎 | Thank you Dr Miguel Machado for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~4mm body length. Miguel's id is tentative, plus he's currently working on this group so things could change rapidly. We originally thought this was Stephanopis longimana, which became a synonym of Isala longimana. But Miguel said "Oh, I examined a lot of specimens just like these you sent me during my stay at the Australian Museum." .... "These guys are complicated... Again, I transferred S. longimana to Isala for lack of better resolution in the tree. That was the most parsimonious decision to be taken at that time, but I'm not sure if that species is in fact part of Isala. My suggestion: you can call them Isala sp. or just Stephanopinae." As they don't seem to fit Isala very well, and it's a good chance Isala will be better resolved in the future, probably best to stay higher up the tree for now at sub-family.
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