Any Ideas?

[wikkid_devil]

Just caught the strangest looking spider outside the workshop. Looks like some kind of black crab spider. Ovoid flat abdomen, total body length about 3/4 of an inch. Long two front pairs of legs, with the second pair being about half the thickness of all the rest. Rear pairs of legs are short and thick set. At first I thought it was a garden spider that had been trodden on..... until it tried to run away from me ....... sideways!

I's times like this I need a digital camera lol

Oh and I'm in the U.K
Tried a google image search, but no joy.

 

[wikkid_devil]

Found it

Found it!

It's not a crab spider at all

Its a Nuctenea umbratica, know as a Walnut Orb Spider.

The one I have caught is much darker, but the body shape and dimples in the abdomen all look the same.

http://www.blackstein.de/tagebuch/2003/mai...spinne-2845.jpg

 

[Stylopidae]

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Guess I don't have good luck with computers