Family: Thomisidae
Diaea is a spider genus of the family Thomisidae (crab spiders).
Distribution
While most species are found in Africa, Asia and the Australian region, only two species are found in the Americas, D. seminola in the USA and D. spinosa in Colombia. In addition, D. livens occurs both in the USA and Central Europe. The only other species found in Europe is D. dorsata, which has a palearctic distribution. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The species Diaea livens is found mostly on trees ambushing for its prey, on leafs or flowers.
Photos at Kannaviou, 10/4/2016 by Michael Hadjiconstantis
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