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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Nursery Web Spiders (Pisauridae) » Fishing Spiders (Dolomedes) » tenebrosus group (Dolomedes tenebrosus group) » Dolomedes tenebrosus
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Is this a fishing spider? - Dolomedes tenebrosus - female
Copyright © 2011 Brian Cannon

Is this a fishing spider? - Dolomedes tenebrosus - Female
Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, USA
July 5, 2011
Size: Body approx 3", 7" total
This is my first post. My son and I love your website. We found this beautiful girl right after the sun went down on our vacation. I'm not familiar with the species of this region, but I think she's a fishing spider? We found her lair under a terrace step 200+ yards from the lake.

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Is this a fishing spider? - Dolomedes tenebrosus - female Is this a fishing spider? - Dolomedes tenebrosus - female
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Contributed by Brian Cannon on 7 July, 2011 - 8:57pm
Last updated 17 March, 2021 - 1:39am

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Moved from Fishing Spiders.
… chuuuuung, 17 March, 2021 - 1:39am login or register to post comments

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Moved from ID Request. I'd guess it's probably tenebrosus. I read somewhere that tenebrosus is often found quite far from water.
… Lynette Elliott, 8 July, 2011 - 10:01am login or register to post comments

Yes,
a beautiful Dolomedes
… john and jane balaban, 7 July, 2011 - 10:11pm login or register to post comments

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