A small brown wolf spider rests on a branch and a fake leaf in her enclosure. She looks politely in the general direction of the camera. Behind her is a mini resin rubber duck, which is quite big in comparison to her.

i tried turnips for the first time last week. i wasn't a huge fan, but i do love this one! 🫜💕 #spider #wolfspider #trochosa #trochosaruricola

A Trochosa Sepulchralis wolf spider. This spider is distinguished from other Trochosas by the lack of a marking. On the cephalothorax, there is a thick light stripe that reaches from their eyes to their abdomen. In this stripe there is usually two parallel darker lines that look like an equal sign. This is present in all Trochosas but the Sepulchralis.

The same Trochosa Sepulchralis. I tried to showcase the lack of mark mention in the previous picture's alt text as best I could in all of these, along with some of the other usual Trochosa variations. There is a light line that goes around the edges of the cephalothorax. This is called submarginal banding. On some Trochosas this line is thick and unbroken, but on others (including this one) it is thinner and broken in a few places.

This spider also has radial markings, which are thin light lines that run from the submarginal banding to the thick light stripe mentioned in the first picture's alt text. These create a sort of visual effect similar to lines that someone might draw coming out of the sun.

The thick light stripe on the cephalothorax looks like it continues somewhat onto the abdomen. This section of it is called a cardiac mark, or heart mark. On this spider it goes a little more than a third of the way down the abdomen. Beyond this, Trochosas often have a subtle dotted pattern on the abdomen, with both lighter and darker dots, which I think creates a sort of cute heather sweater type look.

a mature male trochosa sepulchralis! i've been seeing a lot of these at work lately 😊

i included some descriptions of identifiable trochosa markings in the alt text #spider #wolfspider #trochosa #trochosasepulchralis

Trochosa sp. escondida bajo una hoja

Olympus omd em1 mark iii
Zuiko 90mm macro
Godox v350O

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