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Black Crab Spider - Cymbacha saucia

FAMILY THOMISIDAE

This page contains pictures and information about Black Crab Spiders that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
 
Body length 7mm 
 
This spider has the typical crab spider look, dark grey to black in colours. It is small in size and not easily be noticed. 
 
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Nov 2009 in Anstead Forest, when we were inspecting the tangled web of a house spider, we found this Black Crab Spider hiding near the edge of the tangled web (red-circled in the 1st photo above). The Black Crab Spider might want to steal prey from the web or attack the house spider, we could not be so sure. 

Reference:
1. Cymbacha saucia - The Find-a-spider Guide for the Spiders of Southern Queensland, Dr Ron Atkinson, 2008.
2. Cymbacha saucia  - Robert Whyte, Save Our Waterways Now.   

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Last updated: November 14, 2009.