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Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia), New
Braunfels, TX 102408
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photo on the right was taken by
Debbie, an excellent photographer with a good camera. Noticing green
lynx spiders in her crepe myrtle trees in New Braunfels, Texas. she photographed them. In time,
she recorded changes, and sent me the evidence. The present photo is of
a female standing guard on a limb festooned with silk. The green
lynx is a member of the Oxyopidae family. The New Latin word oxyopes
has Greek origins: oxy + opes, "sharp-eyed," This distinctive
grouping of hunting spiders is similar to the Salticidae (jumpers);
neither family uses webs to trap prey; both prefer similar habitats; and
both behave in similar ways. Oxyopids are typically ambush predators,
but some also stalk prey like cats, which explains the common name (lynx
spiders) fot the genus described here. The generic name Peucetia
is somewhat obscure: Blackwell applied Pasithea, one of the
three Graces of Greek mythology, in 1858, but Thorell, in 1877, sought
to avoid confusion with other organisms by substituting Peucetia,
preserving the phonological features of Pasithea without
illuminating the phenology of the spiders involved. (see
Ubick et al, [2005], pg. 189-191, 314, for additional
details.)
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