Stats

Lifespan

1-2 years

Size

Medium

Diet

Insectivore

Activity

Nocturnal

Social

Solitary

Biome

Temperate grassland

Range

North America

Movement

Running

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Camouflage

Status

Uncommon

About

Tigrosa annexa, the eastern wolf spider, is a medium-sized species native to eastern North America from Texas, east to Florida, and north to Ohio. Unlike other wolf spiders, Tigrosa annexa has a distinctive striped pattern on its abdomen.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg sac

   A silk-wrapped egg sac shelters a clutch of eggs until the young are ready to emerge.
2. 2.
   juvenile

   A spiderling emerges from the egg sac already in miniature adult form and starts catching prey almost immediately.
3. 3.
   subadult

   A near-adult arachnid molts through several instars, growing larger and developing mature markings.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown after its final molt.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Lycosidae

Genus

Tigrosa

Species

Tigrosa annexa