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Anyone know what kind of spider this is? (feddit.nl)

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Found this spider in Assen(NL) can anyone identify it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Probably a crab spider Misumena vatia (NL: gewone kameleonspin D: veränderliche Krabbenspinne). They vary in colour quite a lot. Usually they are sitting on a blossom of similar colour and wait for prey.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

No, this one is actually looks green.

I think I already found it, it's about 3.5mm long, bright green abdomen with green legs and a brown head, it looks like a Green Meshspider(Nigma Walckenaeri). I just wasn't sure because most descriptions of this have more yellow-ish legs, these are green all the way until the legs are too thin to really show visible color.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

For the one I proposed, yellowish green is also possible. The one in your link seems to have a hairy abdomen, which I don't see in your picture. Also it seems to be much darker greenly coloured. (Just my two cents, but I'm no expert)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

General shape (crab spiders have prominently larger front legs) doesn't check out.