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. |
Habitat | Foliage on roadside and secondary forests. |
Type Locality | Borneo. |
Distribution | Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak), Singapore. |
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
Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak), Singapore.