{"id":2518,"date":"2012-09-09T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2012-09-08T00:31:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T04:31:21","slug":"photos-from-bugshot2012-hogna-lenta-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/09\/photos-from-bugshot2012-hogna-lenta-i-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos from #BugShot2012 – Hogna lenta (I think)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Hogna<\/a>

Hogna lenta (or something closely related in the H. lenta species group) – Archbold Biological Station, Florida. These large wolf spiders are easy to spot at night by shining a flashlight off their large eyes, which reflect back a greenish light, much like mammal eyes, despite being completely different physiologically.<\/p><\/div>\n

What would a lesson from Thomas Shahan be without a super close-up portrait of a spider? I’m stealing Dave Walter’s phrase “Adventures in Spider Misidentification” for this one though. When I took these photos I figured it’d be a cinch to identify this big spider because of those bright red margins on the chelicerae, but apparently that’s a pretty common trait in many wolf spiders (family Lycosidae). Not only that, but there is a huge amount of intra-specific variation in colours and patterns in this species group<\/a>, making me less than confident in my ID of\u00a0Hogna lenta<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If you have a better suggestion on the ID of this hairy hunter, please let me know! Here’s another photo that may be more useful for identification purposes.<\/p>\n

\"Hogna<\/a>

Hogna lenta wolf spider – Archbold Biological Station, Florida<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What would a lesson from Thomas Shahan be without a super close-up portrait of a spider? I’m stealing Dave Walter’s phrase “Adventures in Spider Misidentification” for this one though. When I took these photos I figured it’d be a cinch to identify this big spider because of those bright red margins on the chelicerae, but […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,261,17],"tags":[21,445,169,446],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arthropoda","category-natural-history","category-photography","tag-arachnida","tag-lycosidae","tag-spider","tag-wolf-spider","category-28-id","category-261-id","category-17-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}