One of the Other - _TNY_9528
Sometimes species of spiders (and other animals for that matter) look almost identical, but since tey can't reproduce with each others, they are obviously different species. Since I am no fan of killing and dissecting spiders to figure out what species it was before I killed it, I prefer to leave them as maybes.
This wolf spider is a Pardosa in the lugubris-group, i.e. it could be a Pardosa lugubris - or a P. alacris or P. saltans. Either way, it's pretty although it perhaps shouldn't have skipped shaving this morning.
One of the Other - _TNY_9528
Sometimes species of spiders (and other animals for that matter) look almost identical, but since tey can't reproduce with each others, they are obviously different species. Since I am no fan of killing and dissecting spiders to figure out what species it was before I killed it, I prefer to leave them as maybes.
This wolf spider is a Pardosa in the lugubris-group, i.e. it could be a Pardosa lugubris - or a P. alacris or P. saltans. Either way, it's pretty although it perhaps shouldn't have skipped shaving this morning.