Lycosa gulosa?

[Sheri]

I think so... but please, correct me if I am wrong.

Really nice bug though, I like them very much. :) It was really dark when I was taking these pics, but after playing with the lighting it seemed to really take away from the spider's natural coloration, so I left them raw.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a280/Pamphodisiac/beaver040.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a280/Pamphodisiac/beaver026.jpg

[moricollins]

nice pictures, sheri, did you catch it yourself?

[Sheri]

We were out looking for stuff at night, and their eyes shine bright green. (Well, all spider eyes do.)

I just photographed it in situ and left it there. We have one Tyler caught last summer that is still doing really well, but I need to rehouse it. They take prey like you wouldn't believe, awesome to watch!

[erni]

beautiful Trochosa terricola/ruricola ;)
I have one of them :)

[Sheri]

Thanks very much!


My field guide says that we have two species of Lycosa, and doesn't even mention Trochosa terricola at all!

I did find it though, on a list of Manitoba spiders, and terricola is the only one mentioned.

[Crotalus]

I played with Photoshop and here's the result (posted on Sheri's request):

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y262/lelle66/beaver040.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y262/lelle66/beaver026.jpg

[Brandon]

Sweet pics!

-Brandon-

[Scolopendra55]

Sweet lookin lycosid!! Probably eats like a pig :rolleyes:

[Cheshire]

That looks exactly like the lycosid I have sitting on my dresser.

I've never seen a bug eat as much in relative to the body size as this guy does. :eek:

I named it Kiryama, BTW ;)

[gosh darn it]

any who you are incorrect about the species and i think you are also incorrect about the order of the spider dear. lycosidae are wolf spiders, when put into the species name it would be lycosa. how ever lycosa gulosa, is a forest wolf spider, and that doesn't really look like one, it has to big of a body for the leg spread and that it has hair all over the body rather than, black spines on the legs. also it has two spines sticking out of the abdomen, and the madibles start out skinney and then are thick.lycosa have 3 microscopic claws (but at the magnitude the picture was taken you would be able to see them) at the end of each leg this one doesn't so you should probably get an entomology book to properly identify it.

[NRF]

any who you are incorrect about the species and i think you are also incorrect about the order of the spider dear. lycosidae are wolf spiders, when put into the species name it would be lycosa. how ever lycosa gulosa, is a forest wolf spider, and that doesn't really look like one, it has to big of a body for the leg spread and that it has hair all over the body rather than, black spines on the legs. also it has two spines sticking out of the abdomen, and the madibles start out skinney and then are thick.lycosa have 3 microscopic claws (but at the magnitude the picture was taken you would be able to see them) at the end of each leg this one doesn't so you should probably get an entomology book to properly identify it.

Blah blah blah. It's a Trochosa as erni already stated, and it looks like T. terricola. T. ruricola has a lighter cardiac stripe on the abdomen, and this latter species does not occur in Nearcticum, but since Sheri never told where the spider was found it could as well be the European T. spinipalpis. But Trocosa anyway. :)