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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Brownish Mask On Front Of acclivous Cephalic Region Including Elevated ocular Protuberance & Horn-Like Projections Spreading Laterally At Clypeus Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Possibly Stingless Native Bees Not Deceived By A White Thomisus Spectabilis So Brown Carapace With White Spots & Line Markings Help To Make It More Cryptic Head On Urban Darwin 1
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Brown Masking On Ocular Area & Lateral Horn-Like Projections Including The Front Of The Carapace Perhaps Help To Make It Cryptic Inside Floral Tube Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Its Preference For Symmetry & The Highest Colour Contrast That Pollinating Bees Prefer Helps Capturing Pollinating Insects Urban Darwin 01a
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Lateral Eyes On Horn-Like Projections Supposedly Can Undergo Unique Colour Transformation From Yellow To White Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Lateral Eyes On Horn-Like Projections With Frontal & Lateral Field Of Views Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Thomisidae Laterigrade Legs, Inner Lateral Surfaces Of The Femora & Leg Segments Face Upwards Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Thomisidae Primarily Eats Insects & Its Preference For Symmetry Helps Them In Capturing Pollinating Insects Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Thomisidae Black Setae On Chelicerae & Pedipalps Hunting On Adenium Sp. Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Thomisidae Similar To Japan’s Thomisus labefactus Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Thomisidae Grabs & Holds The Hoverfly Ischiodon scutellaris In Its Pedipalps & Front Legs, While Biting It Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Thomisidae Successful Hunting On Bergera koenigii Terminal Inflorescence Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Thomisidae With Prey Hoverfly Ischiodon scutellaris On Inflorescence Terminal Panicles Bergera koenigii Rutaceae Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Using Sight, Vibration &Touch Senses It Targets Insects Alighting Or Walking Nearby On the Bergera koenigii Terminal Inflorescence Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Venom & Stomach Chemical External Digestion & Grinding, Mastication By Fangs, Toothed Jaw Bases & Maxillae, Reduces Body Tissues To A Chitinous Soup Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis White Spiders Reflecting Ultraviolet Light On Yellow Petals Produces The Highest Colour Contrast That Pollinating Bees Prefer Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Cephalothorax Dome White, Ascending To Brown Posterior Eye Row & Lateral Hornes, Lateral Sides With Continuous Brown Marks Ending At Thoracic Base Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Brown Colouration On Carapace Front, Ocular Area, Domed Cephalothora's Declivous Sides & Laterigrade Leg's Tarsus & Metatarsus Make It More Cryptic Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Dark Brown Line Connecting Opposite Vertices Of The White Pentagon Shaped Abdomen & Two Brown Spots At Its Base Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis White Domed Cephalothora, Acclivous Protuberance, Brown Declivous Sides & Terminating At Brown Ocular Area & Clypeus Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Thomisidae Change Their Colour To Match The Flower Colour, Thus Rendering Them Cryptic To Insect Prey Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Thomisidae Use The Sit-And-Wait Strategy & Catch Prey With The First Two Pairs Of Legs Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Secondary Larger Darker Lateral Eyes Have Frontal & Lateral Fields Of View & Retinas Without Monopolar Receptor Cells So No Reflecting Tapetum Urban Darwin
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Hoverfly Ischiodon scutellaris Syrphidae Becoming The Victim Of Thomisus spectabilis while Attempting To Pollinate Bergera koenigii Urban Darwin
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Crab Spider Thomisus sp. Thomisidae on Spermacoce stenophylla RUBIACEAE Howard Springs 01
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Crab Spider Thomisus sp. Thomisidae on Spermacoce stenophylla RUBIACEAE Howard Springs 02
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Crab Spider Thomisus sp. Thomisidae on Spermacoce stenophylla RUBIACEAE Howard Springs 03
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Crab Spider Thomisus spectabilis Thomisidae Feeding On Apis mellifera on Acacia torulosa Open Woodland
