Green Lynx Spider

Alice Springs Desert Park

ASDP ArachnidaAustralian Golden Orb-Weaving Spider Banded Garden Spider Desert Scorpion Green Lynx Spider Longtailed Orb-weaving Spider Longtailed Orb-weaving Spider with Prey Three-pointed Novakiella Wrap-around Spider

Alice Springs Desert ParkFauna Flora Nature Theatre Nocturnal House

The genus Peucetia are a group of spiders known as Green Lynx Spiders. They belong in the family Oxyopidae (commonly known as Lynx Spiders).

The small Green Lynx Spider pictured here is was sitting motionless in the centre of a flower of the Poached Egg Daisy (Polycalymma stuartii). This is a key strategy of “sit motionless, wait and pounce” when the unsuspecting insects drops onto the flower, a key strategy of flower spiders. Unfortunately, this Green Lynx Spider did not like the mobile phone camera aimed at it and moved down the stem of the plant.

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Oxyopidae
Genus: Peucetia

Footnote & References

Many thanks to Ethan Yeoman for ID, member of Australian spider identification page, Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/australianspidereducation/
Peucetia Thorell, 1869, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https%3A//biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/ec2439b5-0355-4fe2-9907-aab7984e3319
Green Lynx Spiders (Genus Peucetia), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/84120-Peucetia
Green Lynx Spiders (Genus Peucetia), ausemade, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/190889158

ASDP FaunaASDP Arachnida ASDP Birds ASDP Insects ASDP Reptiles Dingo Ghost Bat Greater Bilby Numbat Red Kangaroo Short-beaked Echidna Spinifex Hopping Mouse Thorny Devil Western Quoll

Alice Springs Desert ParkFauna Flora Nature Theatre Nocturnal House