Crab Spiders


Five crab spiders,including life-size sketches and eye arrangements,as illustrated by Carl Wilhelm Hahn in his Monographia Aranearum,also known as Monographie der Spinnen,in the 1820s. Spiders a & b are male and female slender crab spiders,Tibellus oblongus,native to Europe and America. Spider c is a female Thanatus formicinus. Spider d is Thomisus onustus,and spider e is Xysticus robustus.


Size: 2146px × 2868px
Photo credit: © Science History Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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