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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) » Hogna » coloradensis-like with big eyes from west Texas/New Mexico (Hogna coloradensis-like with big eyes from west Texas/New Mexico)
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Spider - Hogna
Copyright © 2012 Robyn Waayers

Spider - Hogna
Monahans Sandhills, Ward County, Texas, USA
July 20, 2012
Size: body length appr. 20 mm
If I had to make a tentative guess, maybe a wold spider, genus Hogna?
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Contributed by Robyn Waayers on 12 August, 2012 - 6:14pm
Last updated 3 June, 2016 - 12:15pm

Moved
Moved from Burrowing Wolf Spiders.
This is just a holding bin for similar spiders from the area. Still not sure what this is, it is similar to H. coloradensis/carolinensis though. Could still be something in another genus.
… Laura P., 3 June, 2016 - 12:15pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Wolf Spiders.
Edit: Possibly the male to:
… Laura P., 4 February, 2014 - 5:40pm login or register to post comments

Moved to wolf spiders
Moved from True Spiders. That's a beauty. I don't think it's a Hogna, but I don't have a suggestion right now. What's the habitat? Desert?
… Lynette Elliott, 15 August, 2012 - 8:57am login or register to post comments

 
Sand Dunes
This is a somewhat isolated sand dune region and it does have some endemic arthropods. Mike Quinn has a nice summary of many of the beetles but I haven't found much on the spiders from there yet.
… Robyn Waayers, 15 August, 2012 - 10:38am login or register to post comments

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