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This spider was living in a tire, as most spiders can be found doing. It was very small, arouns an inch in size. To me, it's most defining feature is the brown stripes in it's back.
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- Submitted: Jan 29, 2018
- Photographed: Nov 3, 2017
- Spider: Schizocosa (Lanceolate Wolf Spiders)
- Location: Fayetteville, Georgia, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Under rock, log, or debris
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
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Aug 3, 2019
Jul 4, 2019
Georgia, 
I think that it also might be female, as I saw a web in the tire, and there are no large circular ends to it’s legs.
Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 This is a Wolf Spider, looks like one of the Schizocosa. This could either be a female or an immature male.
Thank you for replying.
Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) in different genera can look very similar. Rabidosa rabida is markedly different from your spider. The median carapace stripe narrows between the eyes on R. rabida and is much broader on your spider. The eyes are also placed in slightly different locations. Here is a Schizocosa that is similar to yours:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/756082/bgimage
Schizocosa is a rather large genus with 27 species in North America north of Mexico. There are a bunch of them in Georgia that do not yet have much or any confirmed images that are readily searchable online so it is difficult to suggest which exact one it is in this case.
I agree that it is a wolf spider, but I did more research and I think it is instead a Rabid Wolf Spider, similar to this one.
https://goo.gl/images/5YUYae