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Light Brown Wolf - SK - Arctosa emertoni

Light Brown Wolf - SK - Arctosa emertoni
Bergheim, Saskatoon and Area, Saskatchewan, Canada
October 14, 2012
We found this little wolf spider in some silk nestled between some carrots. It was very leery of the camera but was small enough to stalk and follow as it fled on the dirt road and field. These pictures were taken late morning on a very warm October day.

We were out in the field where we were harvesting carrots to store for the winter and sell at the Saskatoon Farmer's Market. The field around was about 12 acres squared and had various vegetables, weeds, and shrubs. Neighboring acreages include canola and wheat farming. The farm and garden property is also bordering the South Saskatchewan River which they irrigate from in the summer but the pictures were taken a good mile from the bank of the river.

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Moved
Moved from Arctosa.

Moved
Moved from Wolf Spiders.

SK wolf spider
Nice one. It has short fat legs which rules out a bunch of wolf spiders. That being said I can't figure out which genus to start with. There are no Allocosa in Canada so it's not that. Based on legs I'd rule out Pardosa, Pirata, Alopecosa, Gladicosa, Hogna, Melocosa, Schizocosa (and some others that I would never even consider for this spider).

I think this leaves possible genera as Trochosa, Arctosa & Geolycosa. The eyes look very like Arctosa to me.

 
Legs with dark rings.......
....emertoni Gertsch (p.283)
Insects and Arachnids of Canada - Part 17.
"Some genera (Arctosa, Trochosa and Alopecosa) keep their eggs under the ground in web coated holes or tubes."
http://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/Spiders/Lycosidae/Lycosidae.htm
Quite sure I accidentally dug one up 12 July 2014.
She has burrowed into some sand with her egg sack and closed the entrance.

 
My mistake
Notes mixed up. Description for A. littoralis closer.
A. emertoni "Glistening Carapace reddish brown, mottled laterally with pale pigment, glistening, nearly glabrous." (chiefly of the skin or a leaf) free from hair or down; smooth.

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