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Species Dolomedes albineus - Whitebanded Fishing Spider

Found in the backyard - Dolomedes albineus

Dolomedes tenebrosus - Dolomedes albineus - female

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)

No Taxon (fimbriatus group)

Species albineus (Whitebanded Fishing Spider)

Size

Female 23 mm, male 18 mm.

Identification

Generally an ID can be made by the white band along the 'face' (clypeus).

D. albineus is also the only member of the North American Fishing Spiders to sometimes sport a mossy-green coloration on the abdomen.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 1:20pm
Additional contributions by Lynette, Jeff Hollenbeck, Chuck Entz
Last updated 27 March, 2009 - 9:29am

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