Lexic.us

Definition of Lycosidae

1. Noun. Wolf spiders.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lycosidae

Literary usage of Lycosidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Common Spiders of the United States by James Henry Emerton (1902)
"In form they are usually two or three times as long as they are wide, like the Lycosidae (p. 67), but more often flattened on the back. ..."

2. The Common Spiders of the United States by James Henry Emerton (1902)
"In form they are usually two or three times as long as they are wide, like the Lycosidae (p. 67), but more often flattened on the back. ..."

3. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"The Lycosidae have received the attention of most of the writers on American spiders ... The genera of the Lycosidae represented in the United States can be ..."

4. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Lycosidae." Wolf spiders. Large, active spiders which live on or near the ground; eyes usually in 3 ... Key to the genera of Lycosidae here described: a, ..."

5. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1904)
"Chamberlin, RV Notes on generic characters in the Lycosidae, 4 May-June. Montgomery, TH, Jr. Descriptions of North American Araneae of the families ..."

6. Elementary Zoology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1901)
"A running spider (Lycosidae). (From life.) always covered with soil or bits ... A female running spider (Lycosidae) carrying its cgg-sac about attached to ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"This spider belongs to the family Lycosidae, and has numerous allies, equalling or surpassing it in size, in various parts of the world, the genus Lycosa ..."

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