Six-spotted Fishing Spider
Dolomedes triton
Summary 2
The six-spotted fishing spider, Dolomedes triton, is an arachnid from the nursery web spider family Pisauridae. This species is from the genus Dolomedes, the fishing spiders. This species of fishing spider is named after the mythological Greek god Triton who is the messenger of the big sea and the son of Poseidon. These spiders can be seen scampering along the water’s surface when a person walks by in which they are often referred to as dock...
Habitat and range 3
Creeks and grassland. It can be found on the east side of North America and on the east side of Canada. This species will be somewhat active but it can sit for hours waiting for it's catch.
Seasonality 3
It can be found in the Summer and Spring. The life stages of the Dolomedes Triton: immature, subadult, and mature. Immature is when they are a smaller specimen and not showing any difference in gender/sex. Subadult is when it molts once or twice into maturity. In the mature state a male will develop functional palps (elongated appendages) and the female will develop functional pedipalps (elongated appendages on the female).
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- Adapted by 20Casey Clark from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolomedes_triton
- (c) 20Casey Clark, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
