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Wolf spider? - Rabidosa - female

Wolf spider? - Rabidosa - Female
Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
July 17, 2010
Size: 2" - 2.5"
A lot of people are telling me this is a wolf spider, but I'm not sure. It certainly looks a lot like one, but the head (sorry, I don't know all the technical names) isn't flat, and it has a solid black line from tip to tip, with white stripes on each side, and then the rest is brown. Also, it was eating the smaller spider you see on the right when I got it, which leads me to believe it's a female. It was found under a bunch of brush I was clearing out, and it appeared to jump when I got near it. Any ideas?

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Rabidosa
It's one of the 200+ species in the family Lycosidae ("wolf spiders") that is found in North America; take a look a Rabidosa (rabida).

-Kevin
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 17 July, 2010 - 12:23pm

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