Lycosidae
(Wolf Spiders)

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.

• Submitted by: 
  
  looking4wolfspider
• 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