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Spider identification (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by venusaur to c/spiders

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Southern California. It jumps. Lost legs unfortunately trying to catch it. Released outside.

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[–] j4k3 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wolf spider most likely. Which? I have no clue. I see them all the time too. Their bites last a month or more when I've gotten bitten.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider

[–] venusaur 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Thanks! I’ll take a look again. The wolf spider pics I saw looked like tarantulas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Oh you're in for a fun spider fact now!

In German (and probably more European languages) we have a spider called the "Tarantel" (Lycosa tarantula) which is one of the largest wolf spiders (and just general largest spider) in Europe.

So the entire family of tarantulas (in English) got their name from a wolf spider initially. Probably named by European explorers that didn't know any better

[–] venusaur 1 points 4 months ago

Woah! That’s a big spider but looks kinda cute haha. Thanks for the fun fact.

[–] j4k3 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I got bitten by a couple of these in San Clemente, caught one and brought it to someone at UC Irvine, back when there was a Bike Religion store on campus and I was they Buyer for the chain. They said it was a wolf spider. I was told there is a good bit of variance in the species that can make them difficult to identify further, but they are common to SoCal.

[–] venusaur 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What happened to the bite? Just painful or any necrotic flesh or other symptoms?

[–] j4k3 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just painful, but deeply so. It looked about like a mosquito bite, but under the surface it went deeper and impacted muscles to a minor extent for around a month. I was commuting full time by bicycle and it had noticeable effects.

[–] venusaur 2 points 4 months ago

Damn. Don’t wanna get bit by one of these

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I was told there is a good bit of variance in the species that can make them difficult to identify further, but they are common to SoCal.

That's all correct. Wolf spiders are the second biggest family of spiders after the jumping spiders. And they are pretty much common in every part of the world that has spiders.

And while they are incredibly diverse within their family, the family itself is quite easy to identify (with only a few other families being false postives, like the aptly named false wolf spiders).

That said, while the OP's picture isn't good enough for an ID, you can rule out a lot of what it isn't and that includes wolf spiders. Their legs are usually more stumpy and don't reach the proportions of the front legs shown in the picture.

[–] venusaur 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What do you think it might be then? Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

See the other top level comments.