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Pisaurina Mira or commonly called the Nursery Web Spider.. is my guess! Size of a quarter. Resembles a Wolf Spider but the eyes look different and so does the lack of white stripe down center.
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- Submitted: May 15, 2019
- Photographed: May 15, 2019
- Spider: Pisaurina mira (Nursery Web Spider)
- Location: Newport, Tennessee, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
Nov 8, 2019
Nov 8, 2019
rockaway, 
Exactly! It’s female too. Nursery Web Spiders and Fishing Spiders are in the same family, Pisauridae. They and Wolf spiders have eyes that strongly reflect bright light (like a deer in the headlights) because their eye structure is adapted to amplify low light levels for their nocturnal activities.