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Species Ctenus hibernalis

Tropical Wandering spider - Ctenus hibernalis Tropical Wandering spider - Dorsal Body - Ctenus hibernalis Possible Wolf Spider - Ctenus hibernalis Possible Wolf Spider - Ctenus hibernalis Tropical Wolf Spider - Ctenus hibernalis Tropical Wolf Spider - Ctenus hibernalis Ctenus Hibernalis - Ctenus hibernalis Wandering Spider? - Ctenus hibernalis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Ctenidae (Wandering Spiders)
Genus Ctenus (Tropical wolf spiders)
Species hibernalis (Ctenus hibernalis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Size
Females around 16 mm
Males around 14 mm
Identification
Similar to Ctenus exlineae but can be separated by color. Carapace dark reddish brown with light medial band. Abdomen with five-lobed light colored folium on dorsal side and on the ventral side a v-shaped mark of light dots converging posteriorly. (1)
Range
Alabama (possibly NM)
Works Cited
1.The Ctenidae of temperate zone North America
William B. Peck. 1981. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 157-169.