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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Nursery Web Spiders (Pisauridae) » Fishing Spiders (Dolomedes) » fimbriatus group (Dolomedes fimbriatus group) » Whitebanded Fishing Spider (Dolomedes albineus)

Species Dolomedes albineus - Whitebanded Fishing Spider

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Print References · Internet References

Is this a light Dolomedes tenebrosus? - Dolomedes albineus

Fishing Spider - Dolomedes albineus - male

Dolomedes albineus? - Dolomedes albineus

Whitebanded Fishing Spider - Dolomedes albineus - male

Whitebanded Fishing Spider - Dolomedes albineus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Pisauridae (Nursery Web Spiders)

Genus Dolomedes (Fishing Spiders)

No Taxon (fimbriatus group)

Species albineus (Whitebanded Fishing Spider)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Explanation of Names

Dolomedes albineus Heinz 1845

Size

Female 23 mm, male 18 mm.

Identification

Generally an ID can be made by the white band along the 'face' (clypeus):

D. albineus is also the only member of the North American fishing spiders to sometimes sport a mossy-green coloration on the abdomen.

D. albineus often has coarse white hairs on the legs and abdomen that stick out perpendicularly to the legs/abdomen, giving the spider a bristly appearance that is not observed in other Dolomedes species in BugGuide's range. However, this feature is not always present.

D. albineus one other useful feature is the head (cephalic) region of the cephalothorax is raised above the rest of the cephalothorax.

Range

e. US to c. TX (BG data)

Habitat

Often observed on trees or on walls of manmade structures. Both D. albineus and D. tenebrosus are often observed away from water, unlike their relatives in the genus.

Print References

Carico, J. E., 1973. The Nearctic species of the genus Dolomedes (Araneae: Pisauridae). Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard 144: 435-488. (Species Description Here)

Hentz, N. M. (1845). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 5(2): 189-202, pl. 16-17. (Original Description)

Internet References

GBIF

iNaturalist

World Spider Catalog

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 1:20pm
Additional contributions by Lynette Elliott, Jeff Hollenbeck, cheins, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, Robert Lord Zimlich, Rich Bradley, Kyhl Austin, Nathaniel Green, chuuuuung
Last updated 20 September, 2023 - 1:28pm

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