Species Gladicosa pulchra

Classification · Identification · Range · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

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 Gladicosa

Species pulchra (Gladicosa pulchra)

Identification

See this image

Range

From Long Island, New York, along the East Coast to Texas in the southwest. Limited in its northern range inland to the southern parts of Kansas and Missouri and northern Kentucky(1)

Remarks

Author of the species - Keyserling 1877

Print References

Brady, A. R. 1987. Nearctic species of the new wolf spider genus Gladicosa (Araneae: Lycosidae). Psyche 93: 285-320. [may be downloaded from here]

Eubanks, M.D. & G.L. Miller, 1992. Life cycle and habitat preference of the facultatively arboreal wolf spider, Gladicosa pulchra (Araneae, Lycosidae). The Journal of Arachnology 20:157—164. [available for download here]

Works Cited

1.	Nearctic species of the new wolf spider genus Gladicosa (Araneae: Lycosidae) By Allen R. Brady

Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 28 November, 2009 - 8:27am
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Last updated 11 July, 2011 - 2:53am

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