Comments & ID Thoughts
Wolf or Hobo??
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- Submitted: May 12, 2024
- Photographed: May 10, 2024
- Spider: Arctosa rubicunda
- Location: Broken Bow, Nebraska, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
Wolf or Hobo??
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I am certain that it is a wolf spider. I think it may be this one…the red lined wolf spider. Arcosta rubicunda …neither bugguide nor Inaturalist have any sightings of this spider in Nebraska …so not at all sure…. but the few sightings on Inaturalist seem dotted accros the top half of the country.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/153788-Arctosa-rubicunda
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/119872097
There are some on Bugguide . https://bugguide.net/node/view/1197425 Because that site clusters similar species I search the genus then “data” then the location to see what they have listed for species in the genus for the state. You’re much more familiar with iNat than I am. I haven’t contributed photos to that site because of the requirement to have “location” switched on. I leave it off on my phones because Pixel phones tend to overheat doing anything at all – and “location” burns their batteries even more. I’m on my third Pixel in 2 years. This is a cool photo –… Read more »