Comments & ID Thoughts
Found this spider in a burrow (a burrow too big for the spider to have dug itself) against a tree trunk ~10 meters from a river. He ran out the burrow when I disturbed it with a twig. He has these little white specks on the abdomen and a brown band down the center of the cephalothorax. Found at about 5 PM. He wasn't in a web, but he seems small for a wolf spider. My field guide wasn't much help. Trying to figure out what it is.
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- Submitted: Jun 3, 2018
- Photographed: May 31, 2018
- Spider: Lycosidae (Wolf Spiders)
- Location: Grottoes, Virginia, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc),Under rock, log, or debris,Freshwater river, lake, stream
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
Hi, this does look like a Wolf Spider (Lycosidae). Pirata and Piratula are genera that have similar looking species.