Woodland giant wolf spider
The woodland giant wolf spider is a big wolf spider from the eastern United States. Its body can be as long as 2.5 centimetres, about the size of a coin. Wolf spiders do not build webs to catch food: they run after it.
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Fun facts
It is much bigger than its close cousin, Tigrosa helluo.
Until 2012 scientists put it in another group and called it Hogna aspersa.
In 1849 a scientist gave the same name aspersa to a different spider by accident.
Most asked questions about Woodland giant wolf spider
?How big is the woodland giant wolf spider?
Its body grows up to about 2.5 centimetres long, not counting the legs.
?Does the woodland giant wolf spider make a web?
No. Like other wolf spiders, it runs after its food instead of waiting in a web.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tigrosa aspersa
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Lycosidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Tigrosa aspersa (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Pblaimont49. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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