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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) » Arctosa » Arctosa alpigena
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Wolf spider - Arctosa alpigena
Copyright © 2010 Charley Eiseman

Wolf spider - Arctosa alpigena
Mt. Katahdin, Piscataquis County, Maine, USA
June 2, 2010
Size: ~8 mm
I saw several of these running around above treeline. There were also some big blackish ones, but I wasn't able to get a shot. Someone told me there's an endemic wolf spider on Mt. Katahdin, and I'm curious if either of the ones I saw were that one.
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 6 June, 2010 - 5:28am
Last updated 15 February, 2014 - 1:26am

Moved
Moved from Arctosa.
ID based on range.
… Laura P., 14 February, 2014 - 9:20am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Wolf Spiders.
… Laura P., 9 February, 2014 - 10:44am login or register to post comments

Beautiful spider!
Looks like it could be Arctosa alpigena, but I don't know range at the moment so it might be a similar species.
… Laura P., 9 February, 2014 - 10:43am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders. Nice one. Do you have an approximate size?
… Lynette Elliott, 10 June, 2010 - 9:40am login or register to post comments

 
8 mm...
Assuming I was as close as I could get with my 105 mm lens.
… Charley Eiseman, 19 June, 2010 - 7:07am login or register to post comments

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