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LYCOSIDAE - Wolf Spiders

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Wolf spiders are members of the family Lycosidae, from the Ancient Greek word meaning "wolf". They are robust and agile hunters with excellent eyesight. They live mostly in solitude and hunt alone, and do not spin webs. Some are opportunistic hunters pouncing upon prey as they find it or even chasing it over short distances. Some 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, which distinguishes them from the nursery web spiders whose eyes are all of roughly equal size. This can also help distinguish them from grass spiders.

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Spider identification from photographs should not be definitive in many cases.
For positive identification of many spiders, it is often necessary to examine their copulatory organs under a microscope.

Quote from : Borneo Spiders: A Photographic Field Guide by Joseph K H Koh and Nicky Bay

The gallery images are my Amateurish ID, would be grateful for ID correction.

(Hippasa holmerae) ♀
(Hippasa holmerae)
(Hippasa holmerae) ♂
(Hippasa holmerae)
(Hippasa holmerae) ♂
(Hippasa holmerae)
(Ovia sp.)[A] ♂
(Ovia sp.)[A]
(Pardosa pusiola) ♀
(Pardosa pusiola)
(Pardosa pusiola) ♀
(Pardosa pusiola)
(Pardosa pusiola) ♀
(Pardosa pusiola)
(Pardosa pusiola) ♀
(Pardosa pusiola)
(Pardosa pusiola) ♀
(Pardosa pusiola)
(Pardosa pusiola) ♂
(Pardosa pusiola)
(Pardosa pusiola) ♂
(Pardosa pusiola)
(Pardosa pusiola) ♂
(Pardosa pusiola)
(Pardosa sumatrana) ♀
(Pardosa sumatrana)
(Pardosa sumatrana) ♀
(Pardosa sumatrana)
(Pardosa sumatrana) ♀
(Pardosa sumatrana)
(Pardosa sumatrana) ♀
(Pardosa sumatrana)