(Family Lycosidae)
Overview • Description • Distribution • Taxonomy
Description |
Wolf spider (Family Lycosidae) is a medium-sized to large spider. It is brown with light and dark stripes or spots that camouflages it in leaf litter. It is covered with short hairs. Like other spiders it has eight eyes in two rows. In the second row the lateral eyes are large, the middle eyes are very large. |
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Sources 24, 29, 30, 82. |
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Taxonomy |
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Class |
Arachnida (arachnids) |
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Suborder |
Araneomorphae (typical spiders) |
Infraorder |
Entelegynae |
Zoosection |
RTA clade |
Zoosubsection |
Oval calamistrum clade |
Superfamily |
Lycosoidea (wolf spiders and allies) |
Subordinate Taxa |
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Alopecosa spp. Arctosa spp. (bear spiders) Geolycosa spp. (burrowing wolf spiders) Gladicosa spp. (sword wolf spiders) Hogna spp. Pardosa spp. (thin-legged wolf spiders) Pirata spp. (pirate wolf spiders) Piratula spp. Rabidosa spp. Schizocosa spp. (brush-leggeed spiders) Tigrosa spp. Trochosa spp. |
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Common Names |
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wolf spiders |
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Clara Wolfe |
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Found in a raised garden bed with newly placed woodchips |
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Babette Kis |
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Lycosidae spp. wolf spiders Lycosidae sp., wolf spider, about 10mm long, found on Barnes Prairie, Racine Co., WI. Photos were taken on May 22, 2021. |
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Closer to the nature 6: Wolf spiders (Lycosidae) |
About
Dec 3, 2017 Wolf spiders are quite common world-wide. They are good runners and they hunt actively, so they are well prepared for that kind of hunting. The female of wolf spider is also a good mother, which creates egg sack and carries it with her all the time. The young spiders are safe inside of it, but when they leave the egg sack, they are still protected by their mother. Contact: wildinsideyt@gmail.com Music: Morning Sun by Nicolai Heidlas Music https://soundcloud.com/nicolai-heidlas Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/UzCFTyluxic |
Wolf Spider (Lycosidae) Female with Young |
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Jun 12, 2010 This was one of seven females, each one with either eggs or young, that I observed (within a one meter area!) on the wet plywood deck of a small artifical pond. Photographed at Turtle River State Park, North Dakota (11 June 2010). |
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Alfredo Colon 6/12/2024 |
Location: Albany, NY |
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Leslie K. |
Location: Cass County, Sugar Lake day 3 with our guest |
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Clara Wolfe 5/19/2023 |
Location: Southern Anoka County Found in a raised garden bed with newly placed woodchips |
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Heidi P. 12/17/2022 |
Location: Crow Wing County |
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Alfredo Colon 6/8/2021 |
Location: Woodbury, MN |
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Babette Kis 5/22/2021 |
Location: Barnes Prairie, Racine Co., WI Lycosidae sp., wolf spider, about 10mm long, found on Barnes Prairie, Racine Co., WI. Photos were taken on May 22, 2021. |
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Luciearl 3/28/2020 |
Location: Cass County |
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