Allocosa sublata

Moved

… John R. Maxwell, 3 November, 2010 - 5:10pm

Back to the reference books...

… Kevin Pfeiffer, 3 November, 2010 - 10:34am

Allocosa sublata

First of all, all of these (the pedipalpae) look "the same" -- some of them even after close observation. That said, my conclusion is Allocosa sublata (Montgomery). The pedipalp is the best match to Dondale & Redner's drawings, but the rest of the description now also fits. Furthermore, the female holotype, collected in 1890, comes from "'sand barrens', Pt. Pleasant, Ocean County, New Jersey", which is just a hop, skip, and jump up the coast from Max's site.

… Kevin Pfeiffer, 3 November, 2010 - 4:16pm

Allocosa...

Max, it looks like you were on the right trail.

Dondale & Redner, 1990 write that two species of Allocosa appear near the Canadian border: A. funerea and A. chamberlini.

This is looking somewhat like Allocosa funerea (Hentz). The palp and the description are pretty close matches. The biggest exception being that the authors describe th carapace as being "covered with minute punctations". Hmmm, I considered it glabrose, and the authors recognize this as a similiarity between Allocosa and Arctosa. If I look closely, the carapace indeed is not mirror-smooth, but shows a very light texture, but is this punctation?

The palp is a pretty good match, in my opinion, but I'll look at some of the other reference material, first. And will try to shoot a couple photos this evening.

Here is another Allocosa specimen:

Follow-up: Okay, I've got Dondale & Redner, 1983 (The wolf spider genus Allocosa in North and Central America) --- that should do a better job, I think.

… Kevin Pfeiffer, 3 November, 2010 - 10:09am

Moved

Moved from Spiders.

… John R. Maxwell, 19 May, 2010 - 11:57pm

I think this is probably an Arctosa (Lycosidae) of some kind.

… John Sloan, 15 May, 2010 - 12:47am

Thanks

I was going to guess Allocosa, so we are at least in the same family (I wasn't 100% sure of Lycosidae last night).

… John R. Maxwell, 15 May, 2010 - 7:33am

I suppose it might fall into either genus. From reading Dondale and Redner, it looks like the two genera are separated on the basis of palp structures more than on general appearance or the number of setae on the legs. Will you be sending this one to Kevin?

… John Sloan, 15 May, 2010 - 2:57pm

I think so

… John R. Maxwell, 19 May, 2010 - 11:58pm