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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) » Pirate Wolf Spiders (Pirata) » Pirata montanus
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Carapace, dorsal view - Pirata montanus - female
Copyright © 2012 Kevin Pfeiffer

Carapace, dorsal view - Pirata montanus - Female
Albany, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA
Features characteristic of the genus: shiny carapace, nearly always possessing a V-shaped mark; femur I with 1 prolateral macroseta (Dondale & Redner, 1990).

Kaston (1948) nicely describes the proportions of face, eyes, and head as coming closer in appearance to Pardosa than any of the other species. He also mentions a characteristic (present here, at least) that Dondale & Redner seem to overlook: the carapace is largely dark, but "has a thin marginal strip of white hairs".

Specimen collected by T. Murray:

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Carapace, dorsal view - Pirata montanus - female Epigynum, ventral view - Pirata montanus - female
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Contributed by Kevin Pfeiffer on 15 January, 2012 - 2:56pm

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