Two-spotted flower crab spider

The two-spotted flower crab spider sits very still on flowers and waits. The female has a white back end with two little bumps, and each bump has a black dot. It holds its front legs open wide, like a crab.

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Fun facts
The male is much smaller than the female. He is only about 2 millimetres long, while she can be over 7.
It lives in many kinds of places, from near the sea to over 2000 metres up in the mountains.
It is also found in farms, like orange and macadamia nut plantations.
Scientists once gave it three different names, because its males, females and colour forms look so unlike each other.
Most asked questions about Two-spotted flower crab spider
?Why is it called a crab spider?
It holds its front legs out wide and can walk sideways, a bit like a crab.
?Where does the two-spotted flower crab spider live?
In Africa, Arabia and India, on flowers, grass and bushes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Thomisus daradioides
- Named by
- Simon, 1890
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Thomisidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Thomisidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Two-spotted Thomisus crab spider
Where the facts come from
- Thomisus daradioides (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Peter Webb. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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