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i don’t know the sex, but with spiders i default to “she” pronouns.
she’s missing a leg, probably due to my cat.
her body is roughly 2 cm long, her leg span is roughly 4 cm long.
she seems to maybe be a little fuzzy, but definitely not furry.
her legs are thick and strong.
her color is a velvety dark brown, with a stripe of slightly lighter brown extending from her abdomen up to right inbetween her eyes. the sides of her .. thighs? are also this color.
she has a tapedum lucidum! she has eyeshine, which i didn’t know spiders had! makes sense.
there’s a little white dot on her spinneret. could be webbing, could be a part of her body.
her palps are very big !
she was captured in my room in the basement and released outside.
absolutely no clue what she is! please help me out!
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- Submitted: Nov 8, 2019
- Photographed: Nov 8, 2019
- Spider: Tigrosa helluo
- Location: norristown, Pennsylvania, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Basement or Cellar
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Feb 25, 2020
Feb 25, 2020
Pgh, 
whoop! just identified her as a black wolf spider. didn’t take too long! hopefully she’ll be able to burrow/hunt well with only 7 legs :^(
I don’t know what species “Black Wolf Spider” refers to but you’re right that it’s a Wolf Spider (Lycosidae). The species is Tigrosa helluo. iNaturalist lists their common name as “Giant Wetland Wolf Spider”.
aaah thank you so much!! that helps me so mch i appreciate it a lot
Wolf Spiders, Fishing Spiders, and Nursery Web Spiders have eyeshine. A few other spiders do too. When a Wolf Spider carries her hatchlings on her body there’s lots of shining eyes.