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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) » Trabeops » Trabeops aurantiacus
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Spider - Trabeops aurantiacus - male
Copyright © 2010 T. Gilliam

Spider - Trabeops aurantiacus - Male
Gates, Gates County, North Carolina, USA
March 4, 2010
Size: 2-3mm
Very active - very tiny, found crawling on cinder block wall. BTW - In case you are all wondering about the proliferation of images I am posting from the "cinder block wall" - it is my garage. It catches sun most of the day and warms bugs quite nicely, well into the evening ...
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Contributed by T. Gilliam on 5 March, 2010 - 6:54am
Last updated 12 March, 2010 - 10:41am

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… T. Gilliam, 12 March, 2010 - 10:41am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Entelegynes.

You were correct, this is an entelegyne, but I moved it back to araneae because that's the section were the spider folk look to check new posts.
… Mandy Howe, 5 March, 2010 - 2:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Definitely want this little guy to be ID'ed ...
… T. Gilliam, 5 March, 2010 - 8:57pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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… T. Gilliam, 5 March, 2010 - 1:03pm login or register to post comments

Looks like an immature wolf spider (lycosidae)...
...but I, personally, don't recognize what genus/species. Maybe someone else will. It looks like the palps are already swollen (as you noticed), so this must be a pretty small genus. Nice shot for such a small creature!
… Mandy Howe, 5 March, 2010 - 9:19am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks ...
I wanted a good face shot, but every time I got him off the wall, he became super agressive (defensive) - he even bit the sleeve of my jacket several times before I could get him back on the wall.
… T. Gilliam, 5 March, 2010 - 9:36am login or register to post comments

 
Interesting
Makes me even more curious about his ID.
… Mandy Howe, 5 March, 2010 - 11:23am login or register to post comments

 
This image reminded me of Trabeops even before
clicking image for larger view because of the posture,I also have
only seen them around this time of year.
… J. Ott, 5 March, 2010 - 3:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Ah, yes!
I think you're right! I had completely forgotten about those little ones. The range fits. And to make things easy, there's only the one species (Trabeops aurantiacus).
… Mandy Howe, 5 March, 2010 - 4:26pm login or register to post comments

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