6 mo. ago • 100%

Anyone know what kind of spider this is?

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

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That's an Araniella orbweaver, Araniella cf. cucurbitina.

Also known as cucumber spiders.

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Komkommerspin

Or ~~Araniella cucurbitina~~ Cucumber Spider in English.

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- Or Araniella cucurbitina in ~~English~~ Latin.
  
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  Or Greek. Or just a made up word by some biologist. Or named after themselfes or a celebrity. Taxanomy is lawless.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKRW1zgkCVc
  
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- Or Araniella cucurbitina in English.
  
  That's actually the taxonomic name so it's good in all languages.
  
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  I was hinting more at the Wikipedia page language, but yeah. It's the scientific name, so good in most if not all languages.
  
  Edited.
  
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  Ah. My favorite Henry Ford quote:
  
  The taxonomist can have the name in any language they want, so long as it is Latin.
  
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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.

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- General shape (crab spiders have prominently larger front legs) doesn't check out.
  
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- 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.
  
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  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)
  
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Maybe a yellow sac spider?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheiracanthium

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green one

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- idk looks more like golden to me
  
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  tbh it kinda does
  
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