Lycosa tarantula
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Lycosa tarantula is the species originally known as the tarantula, a name that nowadays in English commonly refers to spiders in another family entirely, the Theraphosidae. It now may be better called
Frontal view of Lycosa tarantula
Mother with young on her back
Lycosa
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Lycosa is a genus of wolf spiders distributed throughout most of the world, with more than two hundred described species.
Lycosa tarantula
…hand with the intention of biting. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 (as Aranea tarantula). It was transferred to the genus Lycosa by Pierre André Latreille in 1806. Charles Athanase Walckenaer in the same 1806 publication described the subspecies narbonensis, which in 1837 he…
Lycosa aragogi
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Lycosa tarantula, illustration
Lycosa hawaiiensis carrying young