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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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Wolf Spider -- genus? - Dolomedes tenebrosus - male
Copyright © 2006 john and jane balaban

Wolf Spider -- genus? - Dolomedes tenebrosus - Male
Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
May 6, 2006
Size: ~12mm
Found this wolf spider resting on a log. Any possibility of identification?

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Wolf Spider -- genus? - Dolomedes tenebrosus - male Wolf Spider -- genus? - Dolomedes tenebrosus - male
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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 2 June, 2006 - 11:38pm
Last updated 4 June, 2006 - 5:04pm

Nursery Web Spider
I think it might be Dolomedes tenebrosus. See comparison images here.
… Lynette Elliott, 3 June, 2006 - 6:19am login or register to post comments

 
We forgot that
wolf spiders would have a pair of eyes on top. We didn't think about Dolomedes because this was smaller than the ones we've seen by lakes. Is there a Dolomedes of the oak woodlands that would be noticeably smaller than the ones observed on rocks and piers along the water?
… john and jane balaban, 3 June, 2006 - 8:41am login or register to post comments

 
This
looks like a subadult male. D. tenebrosus is often found far from water.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 4 June, 2006 - 4:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Not sure
I only know it's a Nursery Web spider based on the eye arrangement and guessed on the species based on similarities to the image in the Golden Guide to Spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 3 June, 2006 - 1:51pm login or register to post comments

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