
Comments & ID Thoughts
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on sidewalk
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- Submitted: Apr 6, 2018
- Photographed: Apr 6, 2018
- Spider: Philodromus floridensis
- Location: Gulf Shores, Alabama, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Eyes
Beautiful Running Crab Spider. Looks like this might be Philodromus floridensis. (I’ll make the page for it later.)
https://bugguide.net/node/view/387000
“Running Crab Spider” I can believe that. This little sucker is small yet very fast. The ring flash going off would cause it to sprint like a Track and Field athlete going for the gold metal.
Yeah, the name is derived from the Greek “philodromos” which loosely means “lover of the race course”. Filed. 🙂