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thrigmopoeus truculentus
size:approximately 8-10 cm,whole body color is black. legs are little bit white. non venomous.
endemic to india. found on ground. not make web.
I definitely see the similarites between the two typs of spiders. You can't really tell from this photo, but wolf spiders have a row of four small eyes underneath the two large ones, with the two smaller ones on the carapace. Jumping spiders have a row of forward-looking eyes with two large eyes in the middle and two small ones on the outside. They look sort of like this: oOOo
Here's a link to a photo that shows the basic eye arrangement from above:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/520198/bgi...
And here's a good one of a wolf spider:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/493753/bgi...
Is it not a species of jumping spider? The only reason I ask is because of the binocular eyes in the front and eyes on back of carapace.
Cool photo! It's not a tarantula, but some type of wolf spider. I don't know enough about Indian wolf spiders to make a definite species ID, but this guy sure looks a lot like those in the genus Hogna, or maybe Geolycosa.
Spotted on Sep 29, 2011
Submitted on Dec 12, 2011
