This tiny Thomisid with a folded expandable abdomen like a bellows is recorded for coastal Queensland and NSW. Being small and hard to see, it is probably much more widesspread, at least on Australia's east coast, having escaped noticed. It appears in at least two forms, a dark or melanic form and a lighter one with browns, pinks and oranges. Some have green cephalothoraxes and legs. Juveniles appear to have lighter coloured, sometimes translucent legs. The legs are slender compared to the stout legs of Cymbacha spp. These spiders make a retreat in a folded leaf edge, often the tip. The egg sac is round, of fine white silk with about 6 eggs each around .5mm in diameter. The species name may mean comparatively small, as in larval, compared with adults of other species. ♀ 2.5mm ♂ 1.5mm
- Dark form from above
- Light form
- Showing folds on rear of abdomen
- Oblique view, greenish legs
- Facing, on leaf
- From above, dark form
- Green cephalothorax and legs
- Brown cephalothorax, two tone abdomen
Dark form from above
Light form
Showing folds on rear of abdomen
The rear of the spider shows the many spectacular folds in the abdomen. which may be an advantage allowing it to expand like a bellows when full of eggs.
Oblique view, greenish legs
Facing, on leaf
From above, dark form
Green cephalothorax and legs
Brown cephalothorax, two tone abdomen
