Photos of Wolf Spiders and Their Allies (Lycosoids)

 

These highly successful spiders are found in nearly every non-marine habitat from tropical forests to deserts and low to high elevations and latitudes. Most of those in the temperate zone do not use silk directly during prey capture, while many in the subtropical and tropical zones do build webs for this purpose. In any case, all lycosoids make extensive use of silk in various ways -- for example, draglines, burrow linings, egg sacs, as well as to help to indicate their presence to other members of the their species, or in pisaurids to construct nursery webs for their young. These spiders are well known for their parental care: lycosid females carry their young spiderlings on their abdomen (opisthosoma), pisaurid spiders construct nursery webs and lynx spiders typically guard their egg cases.

 

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Hogna carolinensis
Lycosidae (wolf spiders)
New Mexico, USA

© Copyright 2001 by Bryan E. Reynolds

Unidentified lycosid
Lycosidae
New Mexico, USA
Click image to enlarge to see camouflage

© Copyright 2001 by Bryan E. Reynolds

Sosippus californicus
Lycosidae
Arizona, USA
carrying one spiderling

© Copyright 2006 by Jerome Rovner

Rabidosa rabida
Lycosidae
Ohio, USA
carrying spiderlings

© Copyright 2006 by Jerome Rovner

Rabidosa punctulata
Lycosidae
Ohio, USA


© Copyright 2006 by Jerome Rovner

Schizocosa saltatrix
Lycosidae
Ohio, USA
carrying egg sac

© Copyright 2006 by Jerome Rovner

Schizocosa ocreata
Lycosidae
Ohio, USA
a rare gynanodromorph

© Copyright 2006 by Jerome Rovner

Unidentified pisaurid
Pisauridae (nursery web spiders)
spider is initiating ballooning

© Copyright 2001 by Bryan E. Reynolds

Pisaurina sp.
Pisauridae
Ohio, USA

© Copyright 2006 by Jerome Rovner

Dolomedes triton
a fishing spider
Pisauridae
Ohio, USA

© Copyright 2006 by Jerome Rovner

Hygropoda lineata
Pisauridae
Cape Tribulation, Australia

© Copyright 2006 by Jerome Rovner

Cupiennius getazi
Ctenidae
La Selva, Costa Rica
eating Norops limifrons

© Copyright 2006 by Jerome Rovner

Cupiennius sp.
Ctenidae
La Selva, Costa Rica

© Copyright 2000 by Fred Coyle

Cupiennius coccineus
Ctenidae
female
Costa Rica


© Copyright 2005 by Joseph Warfel, Eighth-Eye Photography

Unidentified ctenid
Trinidad and Tobago

 

© Copyright 2001 by Bryan E. Reynolds

 

Peucetia sp.
Oxyopidae (lynx spiders)
Maroansetra, Madagascar
eating moth (Euchromia)

© Copyright 2006 by Jerome Rovner

 

 

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last modified March 24, 2006