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I just want to know identity.
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- Submitted: Jan 28, 2020
- Photographed: Aug 28, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Delhi, India
- Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc),Open field, pasture, prairie, grassland
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Why ? You can’t identify?
Hello Prinphotography, This is a very difficult angle, however, we can try and narrow down in the right direction. First, obviously this spider is green, which aids our search in determining many things (species and geographic location). Moreover, by identifying the posture given in this photo, this helps give an idea of what behavioral patterns we can assume, therefore my guess is a small jumping spider specifically Lyssomanes viridis, commonly known as the magnolia green jumper. Again, we are assuming, but to give more evidence to our guess we can identify the abdomen (notice how narrow it is and not… Read more »
It is in family Oxypidae. The possible genera in India are: Peucetia, Oxyopes, Hamataliwa, and Hamadruas. This is a list of all of the species in the family Oxypidae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oxyopidae_species The locations are on the grey horizontal bars. Many of these species have the ability to change color.