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Tarantula in Colorado? - Geolycosa missouriensis

Tarantula in Colorado? - Geolycosa missouriensis
Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
September 12, 2010
Size: About 2 Inches long
Found this spider while rock hunting looks a lot like a Tarantula. Just looking to confirm as I thought Colorado was too cold for spiders like this

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Tarantula in Colorado? - Geolycosa missouriensis Tarantula in Colorado? - Geolycosa missouriensis

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agreed
H. carolinensis...or a H. coloradensis. Need to see the belly to be certain. Awesome find.

it's a Wolf Spider
a defensive one at that. It appears to be in the Hogna Genus. Might be Hogna coloradensis or possibly Hogna carolinensis. Seems to look quite a bit like these images.
Hogna coloradensis


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