Acantholycosa Paraplumalis (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Acantholycosa paraplumalis is a species of wolf spider only known from the northern Altai Mountains, Russia. This is one of the largest spiders in the genus at up to 10.8 mm in length. It can be separated from most other Acantholycosa species by the long, dense hairs covering the abdomen and legs. It can be separated from the only similarly hairy species, A. plumalis, by details of the genitalia. Wolf spiders are members of the family Lycosidae, from the Greek word " " meaning "wolf." They are robust and agile hunters with good eyesight. They live mostly solitary lives and hunt alone. Some are opportunistic hunters pouncing upon prey as they find it or even chasing it over short distances. Some will even wait for passing prey in or near the mouth of a burrow. Wolf spiders resemble Nursery web spiders (family Pisauridae), but they carry their egg sacs by attaching them to their spinnerets (Pisauridae carry their egg sacs with their chelicerae and pedipalps). Wolf spiders have two eyes out of eight that are large and prominent, distinguishing them from the Nursery web spiders, whose eyes are all of approximately equal size.