Running Crab Spiders - Philodrominae

    Family -  Thomisidae

    Subfamily - Philodrominae

    These Spiders don't make webs but hunt on the run or

    lie in wait to grab passing prey. Fast and agile.

    Male
    Hove
    24.05.12

    Hiding!

    Extra Mural Cemetery, Brighton
    17.04.12

    Lying in wait
    Brighton
    22.04.12

    Male
    Extra Mural Cemetery, Brighton
    30.04.12

    Juvenile Male with prey
    Extra Mural Cemetery, Brighton
    30.04.12

    Extra Mural Cemetery

    Brighton, East Sussex

    25.10.2011

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

    03.08.2011

    Philodromus Dispar (Female)

    Guarding her Eggs.

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

    09.07.2011

    Juvenile.

    Hove

    10.05.2011

    Philodromus aureolus (?)
    On an old fence, edge of Friston Forest, near Jevington,
    East Sussex
    10.06.2011

    Philodromus Dispar (Male)

    Found this one running across my ceiling

    07.05.2011

    Female sporting a Parasite

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    28.07.2011

   Back Garden, Brighton

   29.04.2011

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

    22.03.2011


   "The spider is an immature Philodromus sp., almost certainly
    P. aureolusor or P. cespitum, but these two are not separable,
    even as adults, without examination under the microscope.
    Both are widespread and common".  
    Ian Dawson (BAS) via Gary Bradley from uksafari.com
    Woodvale Crematorium/ Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    Lewes Road, Brighton, East Sussex
    16/06/2010

    Back garden, Brighton
    01/06/2010 

    Amazing chrome-effect look to this one!
    Lullington Heath, East Sussex
    09/06/2010

    Gravid Female
    I think this is a Philodromus (?)

    Cuckmere Haven
    28.07.2010