Genus Dolomedes - Fishing Spiders

Classification · Identification

Not Only Leopards Have Spots - Dolomedes tenebrosus - female

Orb Weaver sp. - Dolomedes tenebrosus - female

Dolomedes triton - Six-spotted Fishing Spider - Dolomedes triton

Sixspotted Fishing Spider - Dolomedes triton

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Pisauridae (Nursery Web Spiders)

Genus Dolomedes (Fishing Spiders)

Identification

Arrangement of eyes, apparently typical of family:

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 1:20pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Lynette, Jeff Hollenbeck, Chuck Entz
Last updated 7 September, 2008 - 10:12pm

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