Species Hogna baltimoriana

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Spider at Mio Ranger Station - Hogna baltimoriana

Hogna baltimoriana - Hogna baltimoriana - male

Wolf Spider - Hogna baltimoriana - female

Unknown (Wolf?) Spider - Hogna baltimoriana

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes )

Family Lycosidae (Wolf Spiders)

Genus Hogna

Species baltimoriana (Hogna baltimoriana)

Explanation of Names

Author of the name: Keyserling. Year first published: 1877.

Identification

Very similar to lenta, but with markings more pronounced. However, the coxae are not black beneath, the sternum may be. (1)

Sternum black, chelicerae dark reddish to black. Abdomen yellowish with 5 or 6 chevrons posteriorly. Heart mark brown. Venter black posterior to the genital groove, patellae and coxae dark ventrally. Carapace lacks pale median and submarginal bands.(2)

(These two reference don't agree on the coxae being black.)

Male:

Black spot on the ventral part of the abdomen restricted to that pattern (behind the epigastric furrow) is very distinctive of H. baltimoriana.

Range

AR, CT, IA, IL, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MS, MT, NC, NJ, OH, PA, RI, SD, WI; ON

Works Cited

1.	How to Know the Spiders By B. J. Kaston

2.	The Wolf Spiders, Nurseryweb Spiders, and Lynx Spiders of Canada and Alaska By Dondale, Charles D. and James H. Redner

Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 29 September, 2009 - 2:50pm
Last updated 17 May, 2011 - 6:26pm

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