Rabidosa punctulata
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Female Rabidosa punctulata collected at 36° N 80° W. Body length was 17 mm. She was quite calm about being moved into various poses by finger and gave no sign of aggression | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Lycosidae |
Genus: | Rabidosa |
Species: | R. punctulata
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Binomial name | |
Rabidosa punctulata Hentz, 1844
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Rabidosa punctulata, the dotted wolf spider, is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae. It is found in areas of weeds and tall grasses. It is a light-brown and large wolf spider with stripes on the cephalothorax and an abdomen with light spots and a dark middle stripe. Its range spreads from Massachusetts west to Kansas south to Texas and Northern Florida.[1]
References
- ^ Common Spiders of North America by Richard Alan Bradley, Steve Buchanan page 159
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- Endemic fauna of Virginia
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- Spiders described in 1844