Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Hogna helluo

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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 helluo (Hogna helluo)
Explanation of Names
Author of the name: Walckenaer.
Size
Female: 18-21 mm
Male : 10-12 mm
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)
Works Cited
1.How to Know the Spiders
By B. J. Kaston