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Green Lynx Spider

Peucetia viridans

38,033 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 Texas.January 440, February 421, March 478, April 908, May 556, June 670, July 726, August 755, September 1,362, October 1,031, November 413, December 400.
United States27,506
Texas8,491
North Carolina2,537
California2,304
Georgia1,599
Mexico1,463
Alabama1,166
South Carolina979
Oklahoma815
Tennessee792

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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