spider i.d.

[CorsePerVita]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Mhaynes772/spider007.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Mhaynes772/spider005.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Mhaynes772/spider006.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Mhaynes772/spider003.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Mhaynes772/spider001.jpg

[Aurelia]

Dunno the species, but why is it standing in water?

[CorsePerVita]

It's not, it's the reflection of the glass.

nevermind, someone in IRC identified it as a wolf spider. Thanks anyway though :)

[Aurelia]

XD oh haha, sorry I just woke up.

[von_z]

How big is it, and where is your friend located?

[ShadowBlade]

Post a picture from the top down, so we can see any patterning on the head/abdomen. And post in the True Spiders section. Its a wolf spider, possibly Hogna. Also, tell where it was located.

-Sean

[JayzunBoget]

Dark Fishing Spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/bluechAosFairy/ChineseSpiderID.jpg
Does this look like your little guy?

[Neuroticax]

I wouldn't want to find that walking around my house. :?

-note to self- Don't go to Oregon. :}

[apidaeman]

It appears to be a wolf spider of some kind.

[Cocoa-Jin]

what ever it is, I dont like the way its eye-balling me in that second pic:mad:

[WyvernsLair]

fishing spiders look very much like wolf spiders... only they are bigger than wolf spiders. If the spider's legspan is larger than a quarter chances are it's a fishing species and not a wolf.

[ErikWestblom]

fishing spiders look very much like wolf spiders... only they are bigger than wolf spiders. If the spider's legspan is larger than a quarter chances are it's a fishing species and not a wolf.

That's pretty vague (spelling? I'm swedish and a bit tipsy) mate... Some wolfies gets a legspan of 4 inches....

Better way to identify it is the eye pattern. This seems to be a wolf spider, and not a dolomedes sp. Take a look at the eye pattern in both pics and compare them.

[Brianhogs]

Fishing spiders dont have 3 rows of eyes

[Canth]

I'm positive OP's is a wolf spider. Hogna sp i guess

[MaartenSFS]

Wolf spider.. The legs on a fishing spider attach at different angles, somewhat similar to a huntsman. And they don't always need to be near water. One time I was in a forest in northern Michigan and I removed a piece of loose bark from a tree only to uncover the monstrosity beneath, which was as mean as cat's piss. It pounced on me - a good metre long leap - and I did some kind of slow motion Matrix dive as I raised my collection container and it landed inside with a thud. That thing scared the excrement out of me and was clearly not related to the specimen shown above. :worship:

[ErikWestblom]

Wolf spider.. The legs on a fishing spider attach at different angles, somewhat similar to a huntsman. And they don't always need to be near water. One time I was in a forest in northern Michigan and I removed a piece of loose bark from a tree only to uncover the monstrosity beneath, which was as mean as cat's piss. It pounced on me - a good metre long leap - and I did some kind of slow motion Matrix dive as I raised my collection container and it landed inside with a thud. That thing scared the excrement out of me and was clearly not related to the specimen shown above. :worship:

Lol yeah, I love my 2 fishing spiders :) got 2 dolomedes fimbratus (only one that's common in sweden). They're beautiful, and feeding time is a show, sprinting on the water to grab the fly that I drop on the surface in a split second.

Here's a few pics of my darlings:

The smaller one (regenerated her leg at a molt, but it's half the size of the rest, second pic is post molt with bad quality):
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm63/erikwestblom/DSC01590.jpg
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm63/erikwestblom/DSC00056.jpg

Here's the big lady, 2 inches legspan:
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm63/erikwestblom/DSC01607.jpg
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm63/erikwestblom/DSC01612.jpg