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Tmarus angulatus or Philodromidae? Found on a cemetery headstone. I think it is in one of the Crab Spider families.
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- Submitted: Apr 1, 2020
- Photographed: Mar 31, 2020
- Spider: Philodromidae (Running Crab Spiders)
- Location: Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
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Feb 11, 2020
Feb 11, 2020
Lincoln, 
This is in fact Philodromidae, running crab spider. Very nice photo well shot! I also just posted 1 of my own pictures of a fella I scooped up from a pool at work. 🙂
Thanks! The spider was about the size of my pinkie nail. I didn’t know it would look so cool magnified. I used a gooseneck mini LED flashlight to get the light angle and simple clip-on macro lens on my phone. Neither alone is that great, but lens+small light works great. I take at least ten pics per spider. I’m getting better at it. I have my phone’s camera set for close objects (usually a flower symbol). We get a lot of photos that are focused better on the background than the spider. I think that’s because people don’t normally keep… Read more »
It’s pretty good your a great photographer.
This is also the spider I am trying to identify! Mine was found in Claremont, NH. So far my best guess is philodromus praelustris.