- Female body length about 7mm Marjorie Lane Papamoa Beach New Zealand in dense coastal foliage with weeds
- Female body length about 7mm Marjorie Lane Papamoa Beach New Zealand in dense coastal foliage with weeds
A study by Cor Vink and Phil Sirvid, in New Zealand Entomologist, 1998, Vol. 21, The Oxyopidae (lynx spiders) of New Zealand, found only one species of Oxyopes in New Zealand, O. gracilipes. Very similar to spiders described in Australia as O. elegans, O. gracilipes males are 4-5mm. The cephalothorax is yellow-orange with three wide longitudinal brown to black stripes. The sternum is yellow-orange with black mottling. The dorsal surface of the abdomen is orange with brown to black markings. The ventral surface of the abdomen is mottled brown-black. The legs are yellow-orange with mottled black longitudinal stripes. The palpal organs are dark brown to brownblack.
Female body length about 7mm Marjorie Lane Papamoa Beach New Zealand in dense coastal foliage with weeds
Photo: Robert Whyte
Female body length about 7mm Marjorie Lane Papamoa Beach New Zealand in dense coastal foliage with weeds
Photo: Robert Whyte