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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Nursery Web Spiders (Pisauridae) » Pisaurina » Nursery Web Spider (Pisaurina mira)
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Nursery web spider? - Pisaurina mira
Copyright © 2012 Susan Janus

Nursery web spider? - Pisaurina mira
Rideau Lakes Twp, Leeds & Grenville, Ontario, Canada
August 22, 2012
Size: 1"?
This spider was found on a hosta in a neighbour's front garden. Hosta was being dug up and garden was being leveled to be returned to grass. Spider was relocated to meadow flora near edge of woods at creek bed.

Found this . Could anyone confirm whether the spider above is Pisaurina mira? Greatly appreciated. Thanks!! ...I have looked at many wolf spider and nursery web spider pix and am still not quite sure.
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Contributed by Susan Janus on 23 August, 2012 - 7:19pm
Last updated 25 August, 2012 - 10:32am

Moved to Pisaurina mira
Moved from ID Request.
… Lynette Elliott, 25 August, 2012 - 10:32am login or register to post comments

Pisaurina mira
seems good to me. You also have P. brevipes in Ontario, which can look somewhat similar:

The markings seem more consistent with P. mira though. Let's see what others think.
… Kyron Basu, 23 August, 2012 - 8:41pm login or register to post comments

that's what it looks like
that's what it looks like
… Emily Tenczar, 23 August, 2012 - 7:45pm login or register to post comments

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