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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) » Pirata/Piratula
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Wolf Spider - female
Copyright © 2012 Bruce Marlin

Wolf Spider - Female
Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois, USA
April 21, 2012
Size: 5mm
This small spider is in the process of encasing a bunch of flowers in a hunting web upon which she can move very rapidly. She had also connected ziplines to other plants.

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Wolf Spider - female Wolf Spider - female
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Contributed by Bruce Marlin on 22 April, 2012 - 4:36pm
Last updated 23 April, 2012 - 3:08pm

Moved
Moved from Pirate Wolf Spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 23 April, 2012 - 3:08pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Trochosa.
… John Sloan, 22 April, 2012 - 11:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Pirata or Piratula
Since they created Piratula I don't know how to ID these any longer. Do you think we should create a Piarata/Piratula page and place them there until we can guess genus for sure?
… Lynette Elliott, 23 April, 2012 - 8:50am login or register to post comments

 
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Sounds good to me. I need to read up on the new genus myself.
… John Sloan, 23 April, 2012 - 10:47am login or register to post comments

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