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Looks like he has lost a leg? He is on the insect netting around our terrace. He is a big beast.
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- Submitted: Aug 20, 2020
- Photographed: Aug 21, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Murcia, Spain
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Hi! Actually he lost three legs. It seems to be a member of Lycosaide family commonly known as wolf spiders. But they are not good at climbing and they usually are found on the ground. There’s a family of spiders called Zoropsidae that share some common aspects with wolf spiders but they are really good to climb and to walk on smooth surfaces. I bet your specimen belong to that family. I know well only one species, Zoropsis spinimana, so I can’t help you more in this identification, but I’m pretty sure it belong to that family. Though the eyes… Read more »