Lycosidae pics

revilo

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hi all,

with this little picture thread, of some of my wolfies, i want to introduce myself. i'm from germany and wolfspiders my absolutly favs, because this i choose them.
special regards to davisfam ! i was reading some of your posts about wolfies and i think that you are something like my "american pandant" or maybe better i'm your "german pendant" :)

sorry for bad quality of pics (and english, LOL), now enjoy !

1.pic = Lycosa narbonensis, subadult female
2.+3.pic = same species adult male
4.+5.pic = Lycosa singoriensis with slings

i wanted to post more (other species), but i feel worry about size ?! it's possible to use something like "abload.de" ?? because there i'm able to reduce size of pics...

regards, revilo
 

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davisfam

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Hii 'revilo', welcome to the Spidiie boards! :D It's nice to see another fellow Wolfiie lover especially someone from Germany, I have a feeling we will be sharing TONS of information in the near future, LOL! :p

GREAT pictures and thanks soo much for sharing them! It's appreciated muchoo! I can't wait to see more specimens from your beautiful collection! ;)

As far as posting photos, I use "Photobucket".. it's free and simple to use! Also, it allows editing to be done such as cropping, resizing, and more!

Here's a link to the webiste: http://photobucket.com/

If you need help with ANYthing, please just let us know and we'll do our best to help out in ANY way possible! I am sure we'll be hearing from each other VERY soon, take care! :)
 

Steven

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Although i'm not American or German, i also do love wolfspiders :p
welcome.


that L.signoriensis with slings is not a recent picture right?
cause i don't think it's the season ;)
 

Silberrücken

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Hallo revilo! Wie geh'ts?

Beautiful Fotos of your H. singoriensis spiders!

I know not if you have an Facebook account, but this I use for my Fotos. It is given free unlimited Foto storage! :clap:

Welcome, and I send Greets to Deutschland! :) S.
 

Canth

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Wonderful pictures! Do you think you could tell us what species each picture is of?
Also, if you want the pictures to appear as pictures rather than a hyperlink, you can put
at the end
 

revilo

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hi "canth",

i will try this next time with (img),thx.

pics 1+2 : Lycosidae undet., adult fem. - any ideas ?
pics 3+4 : Lycosidae undet. "Chile", adult fem. - i think a hogna
pics 5+6+7 : Lycosidae undet. "Tansania", adult fem.
pics 8+9 : Lycosa tarantula, penultimate male
pic 10 : Lycosa cf. tarantula, adult fem. - this was my first wolfie, about 8 years ago ! i was buying her adult and she was living than 3 years more !

ciao oli
 

davisfam

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pics 1+2 : Lycosidae undet., adult fem. - any ideas ?
pics 3+4 : Lycosidae undet. "Chile", adult fem. - i think a hogna
pics 5+6+7 : Lycosidae undet. "Tansania", adult fem.
pics 8+9 : Lycosa tarantula, penultimate male
pic 10 : Lycosa cf. tarantula, adult fem. - this was my first wolfie, about 8 years ago ! i was buying her adult and she was living than 3 years more !
ciao oli
Wowzaa, that's a LOT of beautiful Wolfiies! :D I'll work on finding an ID for the first and second species later on tonight! Would you happen to have ANY idea as to what species this gal is?! We have done TONS of research and asked but NO ONE can figure out an ID. We were thinking either H. aspersa or H. georgicola but neither are an exact match.. Hmm. :wall:

Here's a picture of the sub-adult female:




Here's a picture of the mature adult, also female:




- There are more pictures of both specimens in other threads, you can find them by simply searching through the "True Spiders" threads over the past month. Thanks! :)
 

Silberrücken

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Hallo, revilo! And ähmmmm... no... have a great Friend who lives in Menden, Sauerland... :D

Excellent Fotos of your Lycosidae!!!! Herzlichen dank for sharing with us!

In Foto Nr. 4, that is a great Enclosure! Very fine work indeed! :clap:

Greetz,

S.
 
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revilo

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hi,

hard question to me. at first : you are the specialists for american lycosids, not me ;)

but generally after a few years looking on wolfies (speacially on the genus lycosa) i get sceptical about characteristics like colour to distinguish species.
intraspecific variability is too high and species with a widespread distribution sometimes looking slightly different in colour and pattern in different populations. even the age of a specimen can change it's colour sometimes.

after reading a little bit about hogna georgicola i recognized that this species is not an obligate burrower, its a facultative burrower. so the explained behavior of your specimen is even not a save characteristic, speacially not in captivity where sometimes true burrowers dont burrow.

so its realy a hard question what species we have. after viewing some pics in web i agree most with hogna aspersa (or georgicola LOL) - but who knows if the pics of h. aspersa, h. georgicola, h. heluo was right named (is named a correct english word ?).

maybe its a possible way to come closer to an id about the location where the specimen was found - what species is more common there ? aspersa or georgicola ? what kind of habitat does each species prefer ?

but the savest way will be trying to get information about genitalic characters about both species and than take a look on your specimen.

sorry, no real ideas about species :(

thx for compliment for the enclosure :worship: i will show you another one which is for burrowing wolfies of the genus lycosa - you will like it too i think :)

ciao oli
 

davisfam

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hi, hard question to me. at first : you are the specialists for american lycosids, not me ;)
but generally after a few years looking on wolfies (speacially on the genus lycosa) i get sceptical about characteristics like colour to distinguish species.
intraspecific variability is too high and species with a widespread distribution sometimes looking slightly different in colour and pattern in different populations. even the age of a specimen can change it's colour sometimes.
after reading a little bit about hogna georgicola i recognized that this species is not an obligate burrower, its a facultative burrower. so the explained behavior of your specimen is even not a save characteristic, speacially not in captivity where sometimes true burrowers dont burrow.
so its realy a hard question what species we have. after viewing some pics in web i agree most with hogna aspersa (or georgicola LOL) - but who knows if the pics of h. aspersa, h. georgicola, h. heluo was right named (is named a correct english word ?).
maybe its a possible way to come closer to an id about the location where the specimen was found - what species is more common there ? aspersa or georgicola ? what kind of habitat does each species prefer ?
but the savest way will be trying to get information about genitalic characters about both species and than take a look on your specimen.
sorry, no real ideas about species :(
ciao oli

Exactly as we thought, we have yet to find information concerning the genitalic characteristics of either one of those species but that was the direction we were going to take with the ID soo, I appreciate the second opinion. I just wanted to see if you may have stumbled acrossed anything over the years, I appreciate the information you did research, that was very kind of you! :)

A fellow friend, "Silberrücken", and I are on a mission to find out this unsolved ID/species mystery! Wish us luck and I'll keep you posted, thanks again! :]

P.S. Those enclosures are beyond fabulous, I must agree. GREAT job on the set-ups and yayy, keep it up with the pictures.. we just LOVE pictures! :D
 

revilo

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hi davisfam,

of course i wish you luck !!! and i will be happy to get further information about your progress :)

i love pics the same and i love your different big species of wolfies - specially from genus hogna like h. carolinensis, h. aspersa,...
im realy jealous that you can find them in your backyard :cool:
so i cant wait for more pics about your nice founds.

what means "yayy" ? i cant find in dictionary...
 

davisfam

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hi davisfam,

of course i wish you luck !!! and i will be happy to get further information about your progress :)

i love pics the same and i love your different big species of wolfies - specially from genus hogna like h. carolinensis, h. aspersa,...
im realy jealous that you can find them in your backyard :cool:
so i cant wait for more pics about your nice founds.

what means "yayy" ? i cant find in dictionary...
Thanks soo much! :D I'll be posting many more photos of our Wolfiies over the past couple of years especially now that you've joined the boards!

The term "yay" refers to the emotion of 'excitement'.. more like a slang term, other examples include, "woo hoo" "yippee" "yahoo", etc. Just fun words! :p
 

revilo

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ahh, i understand.

so : yippee !!! that you will post more pics of your wolfies :clap:
 

Silberrücken

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Hallo, Oli!

Must tell you that I think your enclosures are very very good! I do like them, and great work! Thank you for to share them with us here at AB! :)

Greetz,

S.
 

Mal De Hyde

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Hogna aspersa, H. carolinensis

Hello all...

Since many here are heavily into wolf spiders I decided to add to this thread with some photos I had taken a few years back of Hogna aspersa and H. carolinensis from west-central Pennsylvania, encountered in their native environment. The burrow in soft clay soil of H. aspersa seems seldom photographed, so I thought I would change that, and do the same with H. carolinensis. The first is the H. aspersa burrow, then the H. aspersa itself; the second is the H. carolinensis burrow, then the spider, then the spider's obvious threat display.
 
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