spider ID please?

[desertanimal]

This is from a friend's house in FL. Thanks!

 

[xStainD]

Probably Schizocosa Sp. maybe Rabidosa Sp. Also looks like a mature male. I see them all over here in FL.

 

[desertanimal]

Thank you! My friend was saying she thought it was a wolf spider, but I was surprised because it was so leggy and with such a small abdomen. It seems like the ones I see here have a very different morphotype. But it being a MM explains the legginess, and doing some googling it looks like there's quite a bit og variation in "wolf spiders!"

 

[AceOfJacks]

yea im pretty sure its not a wolf spider ^^

 

[desertanimal]

Ah. Well Schizocosa and Rabidosa both are genera of wolf spiders according to my googling. So maybe I'll wait for more opinions to filter in.

 

[xStainD]

yea im pretty sure its not a wolf spider ^^

Are you sure. It looks a lot like this one I just found on my porch. They aren't the same color but the body type is identical

 

[desertanimal]

Are you sure. It looks a lot like this one I just found on my porch. They aren't the same color but the body type is identical

To me it seems like the proportions are quite different. The legs are much longer on the one I posted, relatively speaking. Yours I definitely recognize as a wolf spider. Mine may be too, as you say, but I didn't think so right off, which is why I posted here. But the shape of the cephalothorax also seems different to me. More squarish on mine and longer and narrower (and cuter) on wolf spiders.

It reminded me more of what I was told were "huntsman"' spiders when I was in Costa Rica. Although neither I nor the people who were identifying spiders for me were arachnologists (obviously, since I'm asking).

After some googling of huntsman spiders, that's what it looks like to me. But again, I'm no expert.

 

[Tarantula_Hawk]

It is indeed a Sparassidae. A male Heteropoda venatoria.

 

[John Apple]

hmmm looks like a male dolomedes ,,,,legs say dolomedes not sparassidae to me :? maybe even triton

 

[zonbonzovi]

Looks exactly like H. venatoria that I collected from central FL last year...from what I can see of the carapace it's a match.

 

[beetleman]

yep,it's definitly H.venatoria,and boy can they eat roaches:drool:

 

[desertanimal]

Thanks, all. It definitely looks like the online pics of H. venatoria to me, as well.