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cf. Loxobates
Green crab spider?
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- Submitted: Feb 15, 2018
- Photographed: Feb 13, 2018
- Spider: Loxobates
- Location: Calauag, Quezon, Philippines
- Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal, Eyes
Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 What a great spider … looks like a Crab Spider (Thomisidae), I don’t know the genus though. There’s one just like it here, but only IDed to family. I’ll keep searching.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/17587070
It looks like this might be something in the genus Loxobates. I can’t say that I’m sure either of the two species in the genus that I see listed as in range looked like possible matches but the paper I looked at also stated that the genus is poorly known. Tentative placement.
http://blog.xuite.net/mbbrgs/twblog1/137793380-%E5%A4%A7%E6%9D%B1%E6%96%9C%E8%9F%B9%E8%9B%9BLoxobates+daitoensis+%3F