Square ended crab spider
Photo by Ruth Renner
Order: Araneae
Family: Thomisidae
Size range
- small spiders, body length 4–12 mm
Distribution
- NZ, Australasia and South America
Life History
- Don’t build webs, but hang by a dragline and catch passing insects
- Well camouflaged
- Active day or night
- So–named because front two pairs legs are longer than back two pairs
- Ten species described, at least another fifteen undescribed