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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ground Spiders (Gnaphosidae) » Gnaphosa » Gnaphosa muscorum
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large ground spider, MT #6 - Gnaphosa muscorum - female
Copyright © 2011 Lynette Elliott

large ground spider, MT #6 - Gnaphosa muscorum - Female
Thompson Falls, Sanders County, Montana, USA
August 20, 2011
Size: 13 mm
There are quite a few of these that live under logs/rocks in close proximity to the Hobo Spiders. 47°35'3.94"N & 115°19'18.57"W

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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 22 August, 2011 - 4:00pm
Last updated 13 September, 2011 - 7:46am

Voucher Specimen
Moved from Gnaphosa.

ID by Rod Crawford under microscope.
… Lynette Elliott, 25 August, 2011 - 8:46am login or register to post comments

Reminds me a tiny bit of G. m
Reminds me a tiny bit of G. muscora. Did you collect any of your Montana spiders?
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 25 August, 2011 - 8:11am login or register to post comments

 
MT Spiders
Yes! I finally collected some spiders from MT. I figure I'm showing some of the most commonly found spiders of the area with the few I collected.
… Lynette Elliott, 25 August, 2011 - 8:48am login or register to post comments

 
Oops, muscorum. Looks like my
Oops, muscorum. Looks like my timing with that question was good.

I can see Rod now, adding Montan" as Washington's 40th "county" to his species lists. ;-)
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 25 August, 2011 - 10:18am login or register to post comments

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