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It seems they are both very close in description and in locality. Not having it in hand makes it rather hard to determine. Some of the pics I have seen of both haven't helped make any determination either since there is such a variation. Heck to make things even worse for you, it could even be a cross.
Hmmm a cross is unlikely ...but stranger things have happened
I can remember last year seeing a big Chinese mantid female with a VERY much smaller Native mantid male on her back and in the act of copulation. Looked like a mouse maiting with a horse
Looking at your picture again that female spider has laid eggs and I bet they are in the rolled up leave she is on. The large female I kept from Upstate Wisconsin has done that very same thing and now I am feeding pinhead crix to the many tiny babies
Here are some developments on my ID search about the spider. I just photographed another specimen very close to the first one. Here are the new pictures of this new individual:
Do you think that it can help on id? I'm pretty sure that this spider and the one I photographied several weeks ago are from the same species... What do you think of it?
I have heard that they can change color slowly over time to match the flower they are on. Commonly called the golden rod spider around here. I would say they are the same specie. I have cought white ones and yellow ones and a sort of green one in the same field...all with the same red stripes along the side. I think you girl is gravid there
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