Donacosa
''Donacosa'' is a genus of spiders in the family Lycosidae Wolf spiders are members of the Family (biology), family Lycosidae (), named for their robust and agile hunting skills and excellent eyesight. They live mostly in solitude, hunt alone, and usually do not spin spider web, webs. Some are opportunis .... It was first described in 1991 by Alderweireldt & Jocqué. , it contains only one species, ''Donacosa merlini'', found in Spain. References Lycosidae Monotypic Araneomorphae genera {{Lycosidae-stub ...
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Lycosidae
Wolf spiders are members of the Family (biology), family Lycosidae (), named for their robust and agile hunting skills and excellent eyesight. They live mostly in solitude, hunt alone, and usually do not spin spider web, webs. Some are opportunistic Hunting, hunters, pouncing upon Predation, prey as they find it or chasing it over short distances; others wait for passing prey in or near the mouth of a burrow. Wolf spiders resemble nursery web spiders (family Pisauridae), but wolf spiders carry their egg sacs by attaching them to their spinnerets, while the Pisauridae carry their egg sacs with their chelicerae and pedipalps. Two of the wolf spider's eight eyes are large and prominent; this distinguishes them from nursery web spiders, whose eyes are all of roughly equal size. This can also help distinguish them from the similar-looking Agelenidae, grass spiders. Description The many genera of wolf spiders range in body size (legs not included) from less than . They have eight eyes ...
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