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wall crab spiders

Selenops mexicanus

Classification

Order
Araneae

Selenopidae, also called wall crab spiders, wall spiders and flatties, is a family of nocturnal, free-ranging, araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. It contains over 281 species in nine genera, of which Selenops is the most well-known. This family is just one of several families whose English name includes the phrase "crab spider".

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Mexico · 32United States of America · 4