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Sibirocosa subsolana

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Arachnida

Superfamily
  
Lycosoidea

Scientific name
  
Sibirocosa subsolana

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Araneae

Family
  
Lycosidae

Rank
  
Species

Sibirocosa subsolana is a species of wolf spider. This is a spider of the extreme north-east of Asia, only found east of the Kolyma River to the edge of the Chukchi Peninsula. It is also found on Wrangel Island and may also occur on the Seward Peninsula at the western extremity of Alaska.

This spider has a body length of up to 7 mm and varies in colour from brown to almost black. The carapace is patterned in the female but plain and unmarked in the male. Both sexes have a reddish-brown heart-shaped mark and rows of white spots on the abdomen. It can only be distinguished with certainty from related species by details of the genitalia.

References

Sibirocosa subsolana Wikipedia