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Lesser Green Lynx Spider

Peucetia longipalpis

3,397 observations in the source records

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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.January 23, February 19, March 25, April 32, May 18, June 28, July 30, August 33, September 30, October 25, November 17, December 11.
Mexico291
United States246
California190
Sinaloa126
Texas103
Arizona30
Jalisco24
Nuevo Leon20
Guanajuato17
Oaxaca17

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • CarnivoreEats other animals or animal-derived prey as a major part of its diet.Inferred from its group

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • VenomousProduces venom for defense or huntingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • PredatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly hunt other animals.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassArachnids · Arachnida
OrderSpiders · Araneae
FamilyLynx Spiders · Oxyopidae
GenusGreen Lynx Spiders · Peucetia

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