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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) » Allocosa
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Spider - Allocosa
Copyright © 2011 John VanDyk

Spider - Allocosa
Ledges State Park, Boone County, Iowa, USA
July 31, 2011
Turned over a rock next to the creek and saw through the camouflage.

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Contributed by John VanDyk on 31 July, 2011 - 5:57pm
Last updated 9 March, 2020 - 9:05am

Moved
Moved from Arctosa.
Resembles A. noctuabunda, not sure about range though.
… Laura P., 9 March, 2020 - 9:05am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Wolf Spiders.
… Laura P., 8 February, 2014 - 8:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 1 February, 2012 - 9:48am login or register to post comments

using Insects & Arachnids of Canada Part 17
I saw no visible matches. I'm willing to move this to wolf spiders for now if everyone else agrees with that. I don't think it's one of the wolf spider look alikes... since I went through most of them and couldn't see anything similar.
… Lynette Elliott, 29 January, 2012 - 10:09pm login or register to post comments

Tom posted a new one
with another beautiful carapace
… john and jane balaban, 29 January, 2012 - 7:36pm login or register to post comments

 
yes that is a nice one
but not in the same genus. I think Tom's is a Pirata sp or that new Piratula.

Back to John's spider the only bald wolf spiders I can remember are Arctosa or Allocosa. That being said I still haven't given this enough though to rule out any wolf eye look-alikes.
… Lynette Elliott, 29 January, 2012 - 9:15pm login or register to post comments

What a strange landscape of broken and empty
millipede bodies. Looks like something from a sci-fi movie! The eyes seem small for a Lycosid, but we don't know anything else with that pattern
… john and jane balaban, 27 January, 2012 - 11:10am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Lynette Elliott, 2 August, 2011 - 9:38am login or register to post comments

Very interesting bald wolf (ish) spider
look how the carapace is kind of jagged. The eyes look wolfie, but I'm not sure. I'll have to look through some references.
… Lynette Elliott, 31 July, 2011 - 10:36pm login or register to post comments

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