Wolf spiders are members of the family Lycosidae (from Ancient Greek λύκος (lúkos) 'wolf'). They are robust and agile hunters with excellent eyesight. They live mostly in solitude, hunt alone, and usually do not spin webs. Some are opportunistic hunters, pouncing upon prey as they find it or chasing it over short distances; others wait for passing prey in or near the mouth of a burrow.
Wolf spiders resemble nursery web spiders (family Pisauridae), but wolf spiders carry their egg sacs by attaching them to their spinnerets, while the Pisauridae carry their egg sacs with their chelicerae and pedipalps. Two of the wolf spider's eight eyes are large and prominent; this distinguishes them from nursery web spiders, whose eyes are all of roughly equal size. This can also help distinguish them from the similar-looking grass spiders.
Wolfspiders are members of the family Lycosidae (from Ancient Greek λύκος (lúkos) 'wolf'). They are robust and agile hunters with excellent eyesight....
known as the Carolina wolfspider and giant wolfspider, is found across North America. It is the largest of the wolfspiders in North America, typically...
Rabidosa rabida, also known as the rabid wolfspider, is a species of spiders from the family Lycosidae, native to North America. In the United States...
The Arctic wolfspider (Pardosa glacialis) is a type of wolfspider in the genus Pardosa, with a holarctic distribution and endemic to the Arctic, particularly...
refers to spiders in another family entirely, the Theraphosidae. It now may be better called the tarantula wolfspider, being in the wolfspider family,...
Hogna ingens, the Deserta Grande wolfspider, is a critically endangered spider species endemic to the Deserta Grande Island of the Madeira archipelago...
implicating spiders that do not cause dermal necrosis. Spider species blamed for necrosis in the past have included wolfspiders, white-tailed spiders, black...
1979). The Brazilian wandering spider (a ctenid spider) is a large brown spider similar to North American wolfspiders in appearance, although somewhat...
families of hunting spiders, such as jumping spiders and wolfspiders, have fair to excellent vision. The main pair of eyes in jumping spiders even sees in colour...
A spider bite, also known as arachnidism, is an injury resulting from the bite of a spider. The effects of most bites are not serious. Most bites result...
Huntsman spiders, members of the family Sparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae), are known by this name because of their speed and mode of hunting.[citation...
ground-dwelling spider, in particular to the Mygalomorphae and especially the New World Theraphosidae. Compared to tarantulas, wolfspiders are not particularly...
Trochosa ruricola is a wolfspider whose common name is rustic wolfspider. The females are 15 mm (0.6 in) but can reach 25 mm (1.0 in), and the males...
shaded moss. The spider builds a tube shaped web between the moss and a rock or fir tree, hence the name. The Kauaʻi cave wolfspider is found only on...
A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word coppe, meaning "spider") is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous...
about 3 cm (1.2 in) when they hatch. Hogna ingens, the Deserta Grande wolfspider, is endemic to the Madeira archipelago, specifically Deserta Grande Island...
produced by wolfspiders belonging to the genus Pavocosa, aiming to identify ichnological signatures which may facilitate identification of wolfspider burrows...
patterns. Washington spiders with distinct dark stripes include spiders from the genera Agelenopsis and Hololena and possibly some wolfspiders. Eratigena agrestis...
some of which are more closely related to the three-clawed spiders, like lynx and wolfspiders, than to Clubionidae and related families. The remnant Clubionidae...
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000...
female spider builds a tent-like web, places her egg sac inside, and stands guard outside, hence the family's common name. Like wolfspiders, however...
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