Striped Fishing Spider | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Family: | Pisauridae |
Genus: | Dolomedes |
Species: | D. scriptus |
Binomial name | |
Dolomedes scriptus (Hentz, 1845) |
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Synonyms | |
D. fontanus Emerton, 1885 |
D. fontanus Emerton, 1885
D. tenebrosus Emerton, 1902
The Striped Fishing Spider (Dolomedes scriptus) is a fishing spider found in central North America. Female spiders can grow to be over 6 cm in legspan. The spider is a pale brown colour with lighter stripes around its legs and a stripe down each side of the body. It is similar to D. tenebrosus.