saw a beautiful green coloured crab spider on inat and was like surely a spider this beautiful and this wonderful can easily be identified down to species level!

turns out theres about three or four species that are virtually impossible to distinguish even with the help of a microscope (because their palps and genitals are often tiny and easily mistaken for juvenile) and that, horror of horrors, their localities overlap

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I am backing out of the spider taxonomy rabbithole