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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 tenebrosus
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Fishing spider - Dolomedes tenebrosus
Copyright © 2012 Charley Eiseman

Fishing spider - Dolomedes tenebrosus
Sunderland, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
March 23, 2012

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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 9 July, 2012 - 9:10pm
Last updated 11 July, 2012 - 9:29am

Moved to Dolomedes tenebrosus
Moved from Fishing Spiders. Nice shots.
… Lynette Elliott, 11 July, 2012 - 9:29am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Charley Eiseman, 10 July, 2012 - 7:05am login or register to post comments

We're thinking more likely Fishing Spider
genus Dolomedes
… john and jane balaban, 9 July, 2012 - 9:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Well, that would explain
why its abdomen didn't seem to match any wolf spiders! I guess the eyes fooled me -- the difference in size between the upper and lower is more than I thought pisaurids had (and more than is shown in the eye arrangement article, but I see now that it is definitely less than lycosids have, now that I'm not half asleep.
… Charley Eiseman, 10 July, 2012 - 7:02am login or register to post comments

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