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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Nursery Web Spiders (Pisauridae) » Fishing Spiders (Dolomedes) » tenebrosus group (Dolomedes tenebrosus group) » Dolomedes okefinokensis
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Hairy Spider at Manatee Springs - Dolomedes okefinokensis
Copyright © 2006 Joshua Kaspar

Hairy Spider at Manatee Springs - Dolomedes okefinokensis
Chiefland, Levy County, Florida, USA
April 8, 2006
Size: 5 - 6 in.
The closest thing I could find was Hogna carolinensis or maybe Sosippus floridanus but I don't really think so, the eyes look wrong.
I found him hanging around the opening of a hole in a tree, he didn't move at all, even when I got the camera 2 inches away to snap a shot. I came by about 20 mins later and he still hadn't moved. It was in the afternoon. There appeared to be a we in the hole. If there was a web, it was horizontal rather than vertical.
Based on the eyes, I would think the Lycosidae family, but I'd like to get more specific, a species if possible.

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Contributed by Joshua Kaspar on 12 April, 2006 - 1:09am
Last updated 22 October, 2006 - 11:10am

Moved
Moved to page based on location and clypeus markings.
Thanks for the great addition. Very similar to tenebrosus, but tenebrosus does not occur in peninsular FL.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 22 October, 2006 - 11:10am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Fishing Spiders.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 22 October, 2006 - 11:08am login or register to post comments

try family: Pisauridae, genus
try family: Pisauridae, genus Dolomedes, species D. tenenbrosus

this is a fishing spider. its eye arrangement is 4,4. Lycosids have an eye arangement of 4,2,2
… Omar Fahmy, 12 April, 2006 - 7:19am login or register to post comments

 
Sure enough, he/she looks exa
Sure enough, he/she looks exactly like one of the pictures in D. tenenbrosus but also a lot like one in Dolomedes scriptus, what do you think?
… Joshua Kaspar, 12 April, 2006 - 12:04pm login or register to post comments

 
OOOPPS!
yes, sorry

it is a D. scriptus. i seem to always mess the two up

you are safe now
… Omar Fahmy, 12 April, 2006 - 1:39pm login or register to post comments

 
8 to 10 inches !!
What! 8 TO 10 inches would make this one of the largest spiders in the world!! Maybe 5-6 inches?
… Michael E., 12 April, 2006 - 11:46am login or register to post comments

 
RE: 8 to 10 inches !!
You're right, more like 5-6, the camera adds 10 pounds :)
… Joshua Kaspar, 12 April, 2006 - 11:52am login or register to post comments

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