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Rabid Wolf Spider Rabidosa rabida, Meadowood Farm SRMA, Mason Neck, Virginia (38618261741)🕷️

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SpeciesAraneaeLycosidae
Arthropods

🕷️Rabidosa rabida

Rabidosa rabida (Walckenaer, 1837)

Rabidosa rabida, also known as the rabid wolf spider, is a species of spiders from the family Lycosidae, native to North America. In the United States it is found from Maine to Florida and west to Texas.

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Also called
Rabid Wolf Spider
Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Rabidosa rabida yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
not recorded
Body length
0.01 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Rabidosa rabida

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body length
0.01 maverage0.01–0.02 m · range across sexes
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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female, male.

By sex

  • Female0.02 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Chamberlin 1908
  • Female0.02 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Dondale & Redner 1990
  • Female0.02 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Dondale & Redner 1990
  • Male0.02 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spiders of Canada; Dondale & Redner 1990
  • Male0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spiders of Canada; Dondale & Redner 1990

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classArachnida
  4. ›orderAraneae
  5. ›familyLycosidae
  6. ›genusRabidosa
  7. ›speciesRabidosa rabida
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  1. orderSpiders · Araneae
  2. suborderAraneomorphae
  3. familyLycosidae
  4. genusRabidosa
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumChelicerata
  4. orderSpiders · Araneae
  5. suborderAraneomorphae
  6. familyLycosidae
  7. genusRabidosa
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Rabid Wolf Spider Rabidosa rabida, Meadowood Farm SRMA, Mason Neck, Virginia (38618261741)Rabid Wolf Spider Rabidosa rabida, Meadowood Farm SRMA, Mason Neck, Virginia (39149137181)
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