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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) » Thin-legged Wolf Spiders (Pardosa)
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Wolf spider? - Pardosa
Copyright © 2009 Janet M.

Wolf spider? - Pardosa
Taber, Southern, Alberta, Canada
May 27, 2009
Size: Small -- dime
I think it is a wolf spider, similiar to the the image at http://bugguide.net/node/view/240002 -- perhaps a juvenile? He was extremely fast and this was the only shot I managed to get. I was within 5 feet of a river, lots of dead vegetation on the ground for cover.
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Contributed by Janet M. on 29 May, 2009 - 8:42pm
Last updated 25 October, 2010 - 2:14pm

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… John Sloan, 25 October, 2010 - 2:14pm login or register to post comments

Just a guess...
Sorry I can't ID this one for you, I am definitely not a spider expert. But, I thought that it looked pretty similar to one that I submitted awhile back which was identified as genus Pardosa:



Unfortunately, a lot of spiders look like one another and that is isn't always enough to be certain of an ID. :-(
… Harsi S. Parker, 24 February, 2010 - 11:47am login or register to post comments

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… Lynette Elliott, 12 June, 2009 - 11:12pm login or register to post comments

Wolf spider
looks right, although I'm having a hard time seeing the eyes on this one. They can be very hard to ID to species.
… Lynette Elliott, 30 May, 2009 - 9:19am login or register to post comments

 
Eyes:
Yeah - I couldn't get his eyes. He was moving so very fast, it was just chance that I had my camera on the right setting from an earlier photo. I was walking away from the river willows and saw him go scurrying away across the ground, so I pretty much just jammed my camera straight down and shot, hoping for the best. He wasn't in the mood to pose.
… Janet M., 30 May, 2009 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

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