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Striped lynx spider with boxing pedipalps

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Oxyopes salticus is a species of lynx spider, commonly known as the striped lynx spider, first described by Hentz in 1845. Its habitat tends to be grasses and leafy vegetation; grassy, weedy fields, and row crops. Wikipedia

The photos below is with ‘boxing glove’ known as pedipalps.

Pedipalps (commonly shortened to palps or palpi) are the second pair of appendages of chelicerates – a group of arthropods including spiders, scorpions, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders. The pedipalps are lateral to the chelicerae (“jaws”) and anterior to the first pair of walking legs.

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