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Photo#293899
₲ - Pardosa - female

₲ - Pardosa - Female
Grays River, Wahkiakum County, Washington, USA
June 22, 2009
Size: 11mm
Lycosidae?

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John B. thought this looked like a possible Allocosa and I couldn't argue that so I sent this to Rod Crawford to ask if we have Allocosa around here. His response was "I've never seen a live Allocosa, but I have been to Grays River, and about the only likely thing there would be one of several Pardosa spp. Allocosa is not known from this state. And yes, only lycosids have that exact form of motherhood. The relative sizes of mother and young, relatively small number of young, time of year and leg spination also suggest one of the smaller Pardosas."

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Moved from Spiders.

No ID but, awwwww, they're so cute
Great shot! I love all the detail you got in the spiderlings. What lens/magnification did you shoot this with?

 
Sanyo X-Acti:
with factory-spec lens - nothing special, a good cheap still/video camera with a pistol grip.

1 vote for Lycosid + nice shot
It looks like a wolf spider to me. You can see some outward eyes. Best would be if you had a shot of the front of its "face" for eye arrangement. Not sure if wolf spiders are the only ones that carry their young on the back like that. Suspect not.

Wolf Spider Eye Arrangement

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