Flat-Abdomen Crab Spider
This is a common crab spider easily recognised by a convex and highly glossy carapace, and a flat abdomen with a characteristic black-and-yellow dorsal pattern. The chelicerae are mainly black.
The male appears like the female, except that it is smaller, and has more leg segments in black, including the femora, patellae, and tibiae of legs I and II, and the patellae of legs III.
| Length | ♀ 8 mm; ♂ 5 mm |
| Distribution | Singapore, Malaysia (Sarawak), Indonesia (Sumatra, Java), Brunei, Myanmar, Vietnam, India. |
| Habitat | Foliage in neighbourhood parks, scrubland, and secondary forest. |
| Biology | C. maugei scampers about in flower heads and is often found preying on ants, caterpillars, and other insects. The mother guards its egg sac within a folded leaf. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Thomisus maugi (Original description ♂; patronym for Maugé)
Walckenaer, 1837 Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier: 507 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095
Thomisus stellifer (Original description ♀)
Doleschall, 1859 Tweede Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel: 57, pl. 14, f. 5
Chorizopsis maugei
Simon, 1864 Histoire naturelle des araignées (aranéides): 428 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.47654
Platythomisus striatipes (Original description ♀)
van Hasselt, 1882 Araneae: 43, pl. 3, f. 7-8 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.119451
Camaricus striatipes
Thorell, 1894 Förteckning öfver arachnider från Java och närgrändsande öar, insamlade af Carl Aurivillius; jemte beskrifningar å några sydasiatiska och sydamerikanska spindlar: 54
Camaricus maugei
Simon, 1895a Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier: 1012 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973
Camaricus striatipes (Original description ♂)
Thorell, 1895b Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum: 311 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.17492
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Singapore, Malaysia (Sarawak), Indonesia (Sumatra, Java), Brunei, Myanmar, Vietnam, India.