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- Submitted: Aug 13, 2019
- Photographed: Aug 12, 2019
- Spider: Pardosa (Thin-legged Wolf Spiders)
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
Pardosa
(Thin-legged Wolf Spiders)
Picture ID 77594
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Pardosa spp.
(Thin-legged Wolf Spiders)Family Genus Species - Submitted May 23, 2019
- Photographed May 15, 2019
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Pardosa spp.
(Thin-legged Wolf Spiders)Family Genus Species - Submitted Jan 7, 2020
- Photographed Jan 7, 2020
- Nashua , New Hampshire, United States
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Pardosa spp.
(Thin-legged Wolf Spiders)Family Genus Species - Submitted Feb 23, 2020
- Photographed Feb 21, 2020
- Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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Pardosa spp.
(Thin-legged Wolf Spiders)Family Genus Species - Submitted May 23, 2019
- Photographed May 23, 2019
- Cottonwood, Arizona, United States
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This is an unusual and exceptionally beautiful spider. I can say it grew back the first two left legs after losing them. That’s why those legs are smaller and a slightly different color.
Thanks – any thoughts or suggestions on id? I haven’t found anything that looks close to it in the databases…yet.
It’s not easy to see identifying features. A kind of wolf, Arctosa littoralis, is my best guess. Compare: https://bugguide.net/node/view/1105191/bgimage
There’s a lot of variance in the appearance of this species. Focus on the overall pattern of white and black spots on the abdomen:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/446563/bgimage
How strange, check it out … the image I linked to (Arlo’s) has two regenerated legs too. Opposite side though.
I’m going with Thinlegged Wolf Spider (Pardosa sp.) based on the big boxy eye cluster, A. littoralis is more compact. It looks close to or possibly the same species as this one: https://bugguide.net/node/view/260864