Explanation of Names
Author of the name: Walckenaer.
Identification
Female:
How to Know the Spiders says the general color is dull yellow to greenish brown.
The image above shows the exact carapace pattern in that book and matches the coloring description. However, the abdomen pattern does not match for helluo. In that guide the abdomen is shown as dark with little pattern except a slightly dark longitudinal stripe toward the front of the abdomen like the image below:
See an illustration of H. helluo
here.
See images of female and male
here.
Range
New England and adjacent Canada south to Florida and west to the Rockies.
(1)Contributed by
Jeff Hollenbeck on 26 March, 2006 - 11:55am
Additional contributions by
LynetteLast updated 29 October, 2009 - 3:12pm