User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-184.38.85.33-20120929004942/@comment-4212769-20120929110520

Spiders are more closely related to crabs than to insects. Actually scorpions are arachnids what makes it clearer that spiders probably are Carapaceons. As the spider has no pincer it's very likely that the third leg pair is what the pincer is for the others so there isn't an anomaly in this. I'm 100% sure it is a Carapaceon, only left to see if Capcom sees it that way, too...