Ancylometes bogotensis (Keyserling 1877) is a spider species within the Ctenidae family, and it is distributed across Central America and much of South America, through altitudes up to 2,000 meters (Höfer & Brescovit 2000; World Spider Catalog 2023). Males measure around 18-21 mm, while females reach 24-26 mm (Merrett 1988;Höfer & Brescovit 2000). Recent studies by Salgado-Roa et al. (2021) and unpublished data by Murcia-Moreno suggest that A. bogotensis is widely distributed throughout Panama, including Coiba Island, Panama Pacific. Similarly, Gecarcinus quadratus De Saussure 1853 is a common gecarcinid crab species that can also be found in Coiba Island (Abele, Robinson & Robinson 1973). These crabs are semiterrestrial, and occupy the supralittoral level of beaches, up to 600 m into inland vegetated areas (Sherman 2002(Sherman , 2006Perger, Cortés & Pacheco 2013). Gecarcinus quadratus is mainly nocturnal, emerging from their burrows to forage in the leaf litter (Lindquist et al. 2009), a pattern matching that of nocturnal wandering spiders (Höfer & Brescovit 2000).Such extended range inland and nocturnal activity pattern in G. quadratus might increase mortality risk due to higher encounter rates with predators. This pattern may be particularly perilous especially for male (44.9 mm) and female (38.7 mm) crabs with smaller carapace widths (Toledano-Carrasco et al. 2021). Although large predators such as raccoons and coatis play a significant role as predators of G. quadratus on the mainland, they are absent in Coiba Island (Ibañez et al. 1997, D. Gálvez, unp. data.). Alternatively, large terrestrial sit-and-wait hunter spiders like the wandering spider A. bogotensis (Lapinski & Tschapka 2013) are a priori assumed to behave as important predator in island contexts. Semi-terrestrial crabs, like G. quadratus, are ecosystem engineers, influencing tree recruitment and organic carbon distribution (Sherman 2002;Griffiths, Mohammad & Vega 2007;Lindquist et al. 2009;Perger et al. 2013). Therefore, studying the predator-prey relationship between A. bogotensis and G. quadratus is crucial for understanding their role as predators in island ecosystems; thus, the objective of this report was to document the predator-prey relationship between them.Coiba National Park separated from continental Panama around 12,000-18,000 years ago, and is the largest marine protected area on the Pacific coast of Central America, (Fairbanks 1989;Ibañez et al. 1997). Dry season starts from December to April with precipitation < 200 mm, while maximum precipitation occurs in October ~ 600 mm (Balaguera-Reina et al. 2018). The observation occurred on October 19 th , 2022 at 8:30 PM as part of an ongoing Coiba arachnid survey project. A female of the spider A. bogotensis was observed feeding on G. quadratus near the Coiba AIP research station (-7º -36' -1.406" S, 81º 43' 28.523" W), about 10-15 m from the beach. The spider was perched on the trunk of an oil palm, Elaeis oleifera (Kunth) Cortés 1897, at 1.2 m high, holding a fresh specimen of G. qua...