Buffalo Horn Crab Spider
The female of this Thomisus is characterised by a pair of blunt projections on the lateral edges of a sub-pentagonal abdomen, and a pale white butterfly-shaped marking on a rugose (sandpaper-like) carapace.
Length | ♀ 6 mm; ♂ unknown |
Type Locality | Borneo |
Distribution | Singapore, Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak). |
Habitat | Foliage on roadside and secondary forests. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Daradius perspicillatus (Original description j)
Thorell, 1890c Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum: 152
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Singapore, Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak).