Id?

[reverendsterlin]

caught this wandering along the floor here in S. New Mexico, snapped a pic to see if someone that knows true spiders could id it for me.

Rev

 

[Wade]

Well, the genus is probably Hogna, which includes most of the large NA wolf spiders. I collected a very large spider much like that one in southern NM myself at the 1999 ATS conference. It had simmilar markings to the H. carolinensis I've seen here in the east, but lighter and more washed out. It may be a desert variant of that species.

Wade

 

[Dirty Bomb]

It had simmilar markings to the H. carolinensis I've seen here in the east, but lighter and more washed out.

That's just the way I described them. I just got 3 of these recently from a dealer in AZ. I think one may be male and the other 2 have eggsacs. They are really great spiders. When i fed one of the females (before the eggsac of course) she grabbed the cricket and it kicked her face, so she threw it on the ground so hard that it bounced. Then she quickly snatched it up again and crushed it in her jaws! Very agro.

 

[Brian S]

One time, I was sitting on the porch after dark and one came walking up the sidewalk. There just happen to be a katydid on a plant beside that was larger than the spider. I caught the katydid and threw down beside the spider and jumped on it and rolled over on its back and held it until it quit struggling.

 

[carpe scorpio]

That's a gorgeous specimen!, and Brian, I love the account, I could picture it.