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Pirate wolf spider - Pirata - female

Pirate wolf spider - Pirata - Female
Medford, Jackson County, Oregon, USA
July 12, 2009
Size: 9mm
Unidentified species. Fits the description provided by RV Chamberlin and others including a cephalothorax with an elongated and dark V-shaped mark placed with the apex pointing posteriorly, rows of white dots on the abdomen, the anterior tibia with two (can be three also) pairs of spines beneath, with the distal pair never apical in position in females, the body not densely pubescent as in Pardosa and Lycosa, and the legs not comparatively short as in Trochosa. The female can be seen here dragging her egg-sac around attached to her spinnerets while she is on the move.

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