Unidentified

Picture ID 155105

Picture of unidentified spider
  • Submitted by: 
    Hugo499
  • Submitted: Apr 12, 2022
  • Photographed: Apr 7, 2022
  • Spider: Unidentified
  • Location: Rainmaker forest, Costa Rica
  • Spotted Outdoors: High foliage (includes trees and tree trunks),Forest
  • Found in web?: Yes
  • Attributes:
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TangledWeb

family Deinopidae Here’s all of the species, I don’t know how to tell them apart. At least the list includes the main geographic regions for each. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Deinopidae_species
This is a Net Casting Spider, They hold a stretchy little web in their legs and leap at prey with their sticky net. Spiders have incredibly diverse methods of hunting!