T. Ryan Gregory and David P. Shorthouse
Journal of Heredity 94: 285-290.
The Cover. Male wolf spider Pardosa xerampelina (Keyserling)
(Araneae:
Lycosidae). Pardosa xerampelina (Keyserling) is a common,
litterdwelling
Nearctic spider found from Alaska to Newfoundland and south to Oregon,
New
Mexico, and West Virginia. Individuals have been collected from April
to
October in short grass, along streams, lakeshores, cultivated fields,
and
in open deciduous forests. Like all wolf spiders, the females of this
species
carry an egg sac attached to their spinnerets, which eventually hatches
into
a swarming bundle of spiderlings. See Gregory and Shorthouse, pp.
285-290.
Image taken with a Nikon Coolpix 4500, courtesy of David Shorthouse.