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Photo#1469485
some kind of wolf spider? - Dolomedes

some kind of wolf spider? - Dolomedes
Hickory Run State Park, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
November 20, 2017
Size: body length about 20 mm
I found this spider this morning (8 a.m.) on asphalt pavement in a parking lot. It was totally stretched out but looked frozen (temperatures were around freezing overnight). I put it in bug jar and brought in the house and it got active. I looked through images of wolf spiders (it seems to have the right eye pattern), but didn't see any with this type of coloration in the photos.

Pisauridae
Dolomedes vittatus. Eye arrangement is very similar to Lycosidae

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