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kennedyh wrote:
On second thoughts, those long jaws just don't fit the lynx spider. I think it must be a member of the Tetragnathidae, known as the four-jawed or long-jawed spiders. I cannot find one with that green colour, but this individual of a Tetragnatha species looks quite like your spider http://bugguide.net/node/view/10428/bgimage
and this one shows the long jaws, much as they appear on your spider:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/4851/bgimage
Here is an Australian Long-jawed Spider Tetragnatha valida that I photographed in Morwell National Park.