Gladicosa gulosa

Gladicosa gulosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Lycosidae
Genus: Gladicosa
Species: G. gulosa
Binomial name
Gladicosa gulosa
(Walckenaer, 1837)[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Lycosa gulosa Walckenaer, 1837
  • Leimonia gulosa (Walckenaer, 1837)
  • Lycosa kochii Emerton, 1885
  • Lycosa nigraurata Montgomery, 1902
  • Lycosa purcelli Montgomery, 1902
  • Trochosa purcelli (Montgomery, 1902)
  • Varacosa gulosa (Walckenaer, 1837)

Gladicosa gulosa is a type of wolf spider found in Beech-Maple forests where the spider can be found in the plant strata of ground, herb or shrub. It is not one of the more common wolf spiders.[2]

Life cycle

This spider is nocturnal and hides during the day.[3] It makes no web or shelter of any kind and hides under leaves in the day.[3] The female carries its eggs in a spherical sac until they hatch, after which the spiderlings may ride on the female until able to fend for themselves.[3]

Use in pop culture

In the style of Gary Larson, Mark Tatulli referred to the spider in his comic strip Liō. In the strip, a jar labeled Lycosa gulosa is empty and a man (Liō's father) is walking away with the spider clinging to his back.[4]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 "Taxon details Gladicosa gulosa (Walckenaer, 1837)", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), retrieved 2016-04-10
  2. Elliot 1930
  3. 1 2 3 National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 898. ISBN 0-394-50763-0.
  4. Tatulli, M. (2007). Lio. MyComicsPage.com. March 29th.

References


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