Photo 24650089, (c) Andrea Pane, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Andrea Pane

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Associated observations

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What

Radiated Wolf Spider (Hogna radiata)

Observer

andreapnor

Date

June 2018

Place

France (Google, OSM)

Description

Buis - les - Baronnies, 350 m., house garden.
Outdoor, one evening, I've found two males and one female (I guess). The males were wandering in the garden, the female was near the door, and almost entered with me at home when I came back after having freed a male.
A little smaller than I thought (males about 8 mm. bl, compared to the finger - see photo - the female should be about 13 mm. bl - the coin under her is 24,25 mm. - just a little more than the adult minimun lenght told by experts). There's a photo of the ventral part of a male (I forgot to take the same photo of the female). Every spider was kept in the glass pot just for photos, then freed in the garden.
https://www.insecte.org/spip.php?article50
http://www.insecte.org/forum/hogna-radiata-fiche-espece-vt12074.html
Interesting the question about the smaller H. radiata minor in Corse
https://araneae.nmbe.ch/gallery/photos/3964
https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/233876
At first glance I was sure they were H. radiata. But after a while, seen how small they three were, I'd like to receive a confirm.

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