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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) » Hogna » Carolina Wolf Spider (Hogna carolinensis)
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Hogna carolinensis Outside of Burrow - Hogna carolinensis - female
Copyright © 2013 Chao "Jimmy" Wu

Hogna carolinensis Outside of Burrow - Hogna carolinensis - Female
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA
November 16, 2013
Size: 35mm
Saw this girl sitting outside her burrow on a warm day so I decided to snap a photo of her. Note the bright orange chelicerae of this individual.
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Contributed by Chao "Jimmy" Wu on 16 November, 2013 - 6:08pm
Last updated 27 November, 2013 - 4:43pm

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… Chao "Jimmy" Wu, 27 November, 2013 - 4:43pm login or register to post comments

Hogna carolinensis Outside of Burrow
Nice one Jimmy.
… Lynette Elliott, 16 November, 2013 - 9:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Indeed
For some reason, individuals that have very bright orange chelicerae are quite rare where I live. Most have either just a small amount of yellow color or is just completely brown.
… Chao "Jimmy" Wu, 17 November, 2013 - 12:17am login or register to post comments

 
Any theories
on why that is? Maybe they don't get the bright orange until their final molt?
… Lynette Elliott, 17 November, 2013 - 7:31am login or register to post comments

 
No Good Hypothesis on this...
It might just be genetics for I find bright orange ones mixed within locations that have no bright orange. It isn't their final molt for many of the adults that I have found lack the orange color. It might have something to do with genetics, to what extent does genetics play on the color of the chelicerae is something I don't know.

Edit: I've attached a female I found in the same area that had much lighter yellow on the chelicerae.

… Chao "Jimmy" Wu, 17 November, 2013 - 5:35pm login or register to post comments

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