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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) » Burrowing Wolf Spiders (Geolycosa)
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wolf spider in maritime forest - Geolycosa
Copyright © 2005 Matt Windsor

wolf spider in maritime forest - Geolycosa
nags head, Dare County, North Carolina, USA
November 7, 2005
Size: 1.5 inches
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Contributed by Matt Windsor on 10 November, 2005 - 7:58am
Last updated 16 July, 2007 - 5:26pm

Moved
Moved from Geolycosa.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 16 July, 2007 - 5:26pm login or register to post comments

Geolycosa
This is Geolycosa and unfortunately (or fortunately for you) the sandy SE has an impressive number of species (comparatively). Florida is the Geo heartland. We have only four or five possibles in Arkansas and in her thirty year study in AR Peggy Dorris never found one (I don't think she went sandy enough). All members can be separated from the other Lycosid genera by the thoracic carapace side view which slopes upward from the groove to the posterior eyes. This is one of the great spider genera.
… Herschel Raney, 10 November, 2005 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

wow
he is gorgeous. i hope someone can properly ID him. nice find!
… April, 10 November, 2005 - 1:39pm login or register to post comments

Perhaps
one of the Geolycosa? See comparison photo here.
… Lynette Elliott, 10 November, 2005 - 8:44am login or register to post comments

 
Probably not.
I wouldn't totally rule out Geolycosa (the habitat is certainly right!), but you almost never see them outside their burrows. Males, of course, do wander, so that is why I'm leaving the door open:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 10 November, 2005 - 12:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Good call
You are right.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 10 November, 2005 - 4:11pm login or register to post comments

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