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It is difficult to fathom just how tiny this spider is.
Maybe 2mm. Among the smallest I have photographed. It dangled through space on a filament from my ceiling onto a towel.
No idea what it could be.
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- Submitted: Sep 15, 2022
- Photographed: Sep 15, 2022
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
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Hi. Dont know the species, but this is a crab spider. I get these tiny one on my hand and watch them balloon away. Outdoors in a light breeze of course.
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I’ve seen a few thomisidae but not this small and not yet indoors. I can certainly see the potential for your ID to be correct. I have a couple more images of this particular specimen I’ll post today. Even macro’d way in it’s amazing how small and delicate the body structure is.
These are mostly outdoor spiders, you find them indoors, likely you picked up a hitchhiker. Especially with juveniles, they pull silk in a breeze until carried away or their web sticks. They can be incredibly tiny, a couple MM body. I picked one up dangling from my hat bill, hardly more than a speck. Sitting on a finger, I watched it pull silk and balloon away.