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Sosippus from Aransas National Wildlife Refuge - Sosippus texanus - female

Sosippus from Aransas National Wildlife Refuge - Sosippus texanus - Female
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Calhoun County, Texas, USA
August 7, 2020
Size: Body ca 20 mm
This Funnel Web Wolf Spider was photographed at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge on its web at the base of a tree. Referring to Sosippus revisited: review of a web-building wolf spider genus from the Americas (Araneae, Lycosidae)By Allen Brady Journal of Arachnology 35: 54-83, 2007 , I think this is Sosippus texanus based on the location which is 14 miles from where the holotype for this species was collected in 1962. Also, the black color with white spots and chevrons on the abdomen match the description and illustration in the report, Brady(2007).

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