Cucumber green spider

Araniella cucurbitina
Orb-weaver spiders (Araneidae)

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Cucumber green spideron RikenMon's Nature-Guide

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Small green spider with a fat round hind body. The legs are dark green to brown, the head is light brown. At the rear end is a red mark. ♂ has dark side stripes and 4-5 black marks.
Young spiders hatching in autumn are red-brown which gives them an excellent camouflage. They turn green in spring.

Positions its web over a leaf and waits upside down in it, being very discreet.

⇔ l. 3-8 mm

LA: 
≈ The DIAEA DORSATA (Green crab spider) has a bright green front, but a brown rear. 
≈ The MICROMMATA VIRESCENS (Green huntsman spider) is completely green and has striking black white eyes.

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