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title: "Spectacular Crab Spider"
description: "Thomisus spectabilis — Insetti e ragni. Thomisus spectabilis, also known as the white crab spider or Australian crab spider, is a small spider found in Australia and far east Asia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/spectacular-crab-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Spectacular Crab Spider

> Thomisus spectabilis — Insetti e ragni. Thomisus spectabilis, also known as the white crab spider or Australian crab spider, is a small spider found in Australia and far east Asia.

- Scientific name: *Thomisus spectabilis*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 2266
- Wikidata: [Q3395005](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3395005)
- iNaturalist taxon: [202059](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/202059)

## Names

- en: Spectacular Crab Spider

## Countries with the most observations

AU (2137), MY (3)

## Summary

Thomisus spectabilis, also known as the white crab spider or Australian crab spider, is a small spider found in Australia and far east Asia.
The body length of the female is up to 10 mm, the male 6.2 mm. Including legs, the spider is around 3 cm across.  This spider is usually white, though sometimes may appear yellow. The legs and head appear almost translucent. Thomisus spectabilis is an ambush predator, often seen resting in flowers of its same color. Its egg sacs are laid in a folded leaf, and the cream colored eggs, typically 1 mm in diameter, range between 200 and 370 in number.
These spiders primarily eat insects…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomisus_spectabilis

## Photo

![Spectacular Crab Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/spectacular-crab-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Bethlea Bell · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100471947

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/spectacular-crab-spider?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).