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Green Crab Spider - Misumessus oblongus After having taken a kayak trip and not seen *any* wildlife besides the splashes of jumping salmon and a few gulls waiting for them, I was disappointed… then walking up from the water with the boats I walked right through a spider web and picked up this little engaging gal -a tiny, tiny little green crab spider. Though she was only about a cm wide, she menaced me with all of her might, waving her legs at me, making sure I knew exactly how mean a tiny little spider could be :p. She was sitting on the black cap of my water bottle when I took her photo. Geotagged,United States Click/tap to enlarge

Green Crab Spider - Misumessus oblongus

After having taken a kayak trip and not seen *any* wildlife besides the splashes of jumping salmon and a few gulls waiting for them, I was disappointed… then walking up from the water with the boats I walked right through a spider web and picked up this little engaging gal -a tiny, tiny little green crab spider. Though she was only about a cm wide, she menaced me with all of her might, waving her legs at me, making sure I knew exactly how mean a tiny little spider could be :p. She was sitting on the black cap of my water bottle when I took her photo.

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  1. Misumessus oblongus is a synonym of Musimena oblonga and Misumena vatia respectively.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misumena_vatia
    Posted 10 years ago
    1. I think the wiki may be incorrect this time… I did come up with the synonyms misumenops oblonga and misumessus oblongus when searching, but the BugGuide appears to treat misumena vatia and misumessus oblongus as different. I will look into it further.

      I do believe she's an oblongus - because in other shots I have you can see her more diamond than rounded shaped abdomen, but she's probably also not a fully mature spider - she was really, really tiny
      Posted 10 years ago, modified 10 years ago
      1. It could be wrong, no doubt. In meantime I've done some further research and came to the same conclusion:
        http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree
        Here all the 3 species are given separately: Musimena vatia, Misumena oblonga and Misumessus oblongus.
        So which one is the right species I don't know now.
        Posted 10 years ago, modified 10 years ago

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Uploaded Sep 22, 2014. Captured Sep 21, 2014 04:16 in 12583-12699 50th Place South, Tukwila, WA 98178, USA.
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  • ISO200
  • 7.1mm