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Photo#204367
Spider ID Request #1

Spider ID Request #1
Vacaville, Solano County, California, USA
May 16, 2008
Originally thought it was a wolf spider, but someone said this was incorrect. Trying to find the correct ID.

Found one today!
I truley believe that this is an Alopecosa cuneata. It is a type of wolf spider but not much hair on the legs.

 
I was about
to ask how you came up with such an unrealistic ID, and then noticed we actually have that species in our guide.

AFAIK, that species isn't present in North America. The ones in our guide might be incorrectly identified.

 
Jay, Nearctic spiders lists Alopecosa
as Palearctic. Should we move these few images to Genus Schizocosa and delete the Alopecosa page?

 
okay...
I e-mailed David Shorthouse about the status of A. cuneata in the Nearctic and he confirmed he knew of no records for that species here.

Does Schizocosa still look good for all four of these? There are species of Alopecosa present in the Nearctic also; about six I think. Again, I have no idea what these are, except they appear to be Lycosidae.

 
Ok, we deleted A. cuneata
and moved those three images to the genus page. The World Spider catalog list two species of Alopecosa as Holarctic, two more as Canada, and only one, A. kochi, as North America. Don't know if that helps. Do we want these four images together, or do we want to wait till we're certain of their genus ID?

 
We might want to wait a day o
We might want to wait a day or so to see if Tom responds to my comment on this image. He might have some suggestions on the correct ID, and I wouldn't want to appear rude. If the existing images had been identified by anyone other than Tom (or Jeff, or a pro) I would have tossed them last night like I did with this misplaced set.

I know very little about this family, even in Ohio, so wherever you're comfortable placing them would be fine with me. Unfortunately, since Tom's image has been there for four years now, several other websites have identified their images based on those.

Moved
Moved from Spiders.

Certainly looks like a Lycosid to us.
We wouldn't know which one, but Alopecosa and Schizocosa both have a pattern similar to yours.

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