Male: Body colour yellowish brown, with black and white markings like in females. Body length: 5 - 6 mm.
Female: Prosoma with shades of reddish brown to cream grey, mottled with black and white.
Chelicerae project forwards. Legs cream, mottled with grey and black, with numerous short black hairs, pairs I and II much longer. Abdomen elongated ending almost in a point and with rows located almost at the end of it, with colouration similar to the prosoma and with white lateral lines, sometimes with wider and greyish mediolateral lines. Epigynum wider than long. Body length: 8 - 11 mm.
Habitat: They inhabit areas of grassland and low vegetation.
Monaeses paradoxus is a species of crab spider in the genus Monaeses , family Thomisidae . It was scientifically described by Lucas in 1846.
Distribution
This species is found in southern Europe , Caucasus , Iran and Africa .
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