The triangle is a small green crab spider that sits motionless on flowers and leaves and grabs visiting insects with its long front legs instead of spinning a web. It lives across Europe and Asia and is not known from the US.
Appearance
- Appearance
- Females are about 3/16–¼ in (5–7 mm) long, with pale green legs and front body and a whitish-yellow abdomen that often carries reddish marks. Males are much smaller, about ⅛–⅙ in (2.5–4 mm), with a light brown front body and a green abdomen edged with dark brown marks.
Where it lives
- Typical habitats
- Dry meadows
- Sunny forest edges
- Flowers and shrubs
- Range
- Lives across Europe and Asia, including Korea and Japan. It is absent from Great Britain and is not native to North America.
Behavior
- Activity
- An ambush hunter that waits camouflaged among flowers and foliage with its long front legs held open. In Europe, adults are found mainly in May and June.
Name and classification
- About the name
- Formerly placed in the genus Misumenops. Besides the widespread main subspecies, a second subspecies was described from the Karakoram mountains of central Asia.
Conservation
- IUCN Red List
- NENot EvaluatedNot yet assessed
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