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White-banded Crab Spider

Misumenoides formosipes

14,060 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 Virginia.January 85, February 91, March 100, April 163, May 211, June 105, July 85, August 186, September 437, October 91, November 76, December 78.
United States12,369
Virginia1,067
Canada1,057
Ontario1,057
North Carolina1,029
Maryland765
Illinois725
Texas708
Michigan702
Ohio571

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
FamilyCrab Spiders · Thomisidae
GenusMisumenoides

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