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Interesting. I have also seen a spider with a limbless insect larva on its thorax, and I figured maybe it's some kind of wasp ectoparasite. No ID for the larva though; to be fair it looks so generic it could be anything.

Araniella opisthographa with a maggot on its thorax https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/95394495

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