That's a crab spider of some sort. Let me see if I can run down the binomial nomenclature on that one. I have definitely seen the like in person before.
Allrighty then. Wrong family and everything. That's a Gasteracantha cancriformis - Spinybacked Orbweaver. Now I can picture one sitting in the middle of its web in the mountain laurels outside my door when I was a kid.
This one's been in the news in the last couple of years.
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