Grass Spider

Please help me to identify this grass spider.

comments (6)

travismorhardt

Lion

It is a member of the family Oxyopidae, the Lynx spiders, most likely from the genus Oxyopes. I will keep searching! Posted 11 years ago, modified 11 years ago
1. Bagerathan Sivarajah
  
  Snow Leopard
  
  Thank you. Posted 11 years ago

Ferdy Christant

Lion

This one makes me very curious. Love the spikey look! Posted 11 years ago

AvinashKrishnan

Snow Leopard

Its a Lynx Spider. PFB the link. This species doesn't seem to available in the species identification list. Guess we need to add it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_spider Posted 11 years ago, modified 11 years ago
1. Bagerathan Sivarajah
  
  Snow Leopard
  
  Thank you. Because i had this spider in multiple colors, i thought it could have its't sub species name. I will identified it. Posted 11 years ago
2. WildFlower
  
  Lion
  
  This is an entire family of Lynx Spiders (Oxyopidae) containing 9 genera. According to wikipedia there are 419 species or 447, according to EOL.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oxyopidae_species
  http://eol.org/pages/199/overview
  http://research.amnh.org/iz/spiders/catalog/OXYOPIDAE.html Posted 11 years ago, modified 11 years ago

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By Bagerathan Sivarajah

Uploaded Jan 9, 2014. Captured Jan 9, 2014 17:44 in Navalar Road, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

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10.281mm

Captured in the winter. More winter photos.