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Eight Spotted Crab Spider

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Found a Eight spotted crab spider (Platythomisus octomaculatus) guarding her egg sac. It was an awesome find cos till date, i believe no one have photograph their babies and the male of this species is also unknown. Sad news is this was found overseas in Malaysia so its impossible for me to followup. My Malaysian friend will try to followup and update me. Photo taken in Batu Pahat forest, Malaysia. Taken at night.

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A genus of flattened crab spiders (family Thomisidae) from Africa and Southern Asia.
All species are only known from females or juveniles, with the exception of P. jucundus, where only the male is known.
P. octomaculatus has a yellow-orange color with four round, black marks on the cephalothorax and seven large black marks on the opisthosoma, with one spot near the cephalothorax, and the other six following behing in two longitudinal rows.[2] The legs are of a bright yellow, with the outer halves black.
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I feel this spider should be nick named The Halloween Spider! :D (Big Grin)