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Is this a hacklemesh spider?
I'm hoping to find some help in spider identification. My best guess is a Hacklemesh spider. Some people have posted similar images that they said were running crab spiders. Help me Daniel G!
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- daniel gLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
To be honest, this looks like neither. It is a male, and without being able to make out the eye pattern, can only speculate this is an orb weaver.
As with many spiders, it takes a close examination to get some spiders to species.
Your little friend seems to have lost a couple legs, that may give it an appearance of a different spider.
Just a hunch mind you, but take a look at male orb weaver.
Source(s): Been around spiders 50 years. - John RLv 78 years ago
Well, it's not any 'hacklemesh' spider I'm familiar with. I'm not sure what it is, to be honest - that nice banding on the very un-orbweaver-like carapace suggest Running Crab Spider to me, but it's not one I recognize. Why don't you submit the photo to Bug Guide and see what they make of it? They have some first-rate spider people.
