Comments & ID Thoughts
Type of fishing spider. No pictures found look similar.
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- Submitted: May 27, 2018
- Photographed: May 27, 2018
- Spider: Dolomedes scriptus (Striped Fishing Spider)
- Location: PRESQUE ISLE, Wisconsin, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.),Freshwater river, lake, stream
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
Found on my dock.
Looks like a white-banded fishing spider (Dolomedes albineus). Great picture!
After looking further, definitely not D. albineus, more like D. scriptus or D. vittatus.
Compare to vitattus: https://bugguide.net/node/view/1201947/bgimage
May be Dolomedes Scriptus
Hi, your image has been filed. (See above image for ID.) 🙂