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Wolf Spider - Pardosa

Wolf Spider - Pardosa
Puyallup, Pierce County, Washington, USA
September 7, 2009
Not totally hopeless but I don't recognize it. It almost has to be a Pardosa because there aren't too many other choices in Puyallup: it's definitely not a Pirata sp. or Tarentula (Alopecosa) kochii or even a highly unlikely Trochosa.

Now of the local Pardosas the one it resembles most is distincta, but distincta has the median carapace band differently shaped. Unless juveniles (which this almost has to be) are different.

If you kept it alive all winter and it matured in May and then you examined the genitalia, you could find out what it is!~Rod Crawford.

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