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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) » Hogna » Hogna coloradensis
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Lycosid spider - Hogna coloradensis
Copyright © 2008 Richard C. Hoyer

Lycosid spider - Hogna coloradensis
Santa Cruz Flats, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
June 10, 2008
Size: abdomen about 10-12 mm
Relatively common on desert saltbush flats; some disappeared down web-lined holes in the ground.
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Contributed by Richard C. Hoyer on 12 June, 2008 - 9:50am
Last updated 10 February, 2014 - 10:27am

Moved
Moved from Wolf Spiders.
Tentative placement without a ventral.
… Laura P., 10 February, 2014 - 10:27am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… john and jane balaban, 17 September, 2008 - 10:15am login or register to post comments

Not an ID
but based on your behavior comments, I wonder if this could be one of the Geolycosa spp. (burrowing wolf spiders)?
… Ken Schneider, 12 June, 2008 - 10:01am login or register to post comments

 
Maybe.
My understanding is that other wolf spider genera will fashion burrows as well, though. I am happily corrected if that is NOT the case.
… Eric R. Eaton, 12 June, 2008 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

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