| | Welcome to the World of the Taratula Spiders |
 | | Trapdoor spiders (Ctenizidas) and sheetweb/funnelweb building tarantulas (Dipluridae) have tarsi with 2 large lateral and a small median claw, without claw tufts (pad of hairs). |
 | | Wolf spiders (Lycosidae) with chelicerae diaxial (fangs move in transverse plane towards each other), and usually with only 1 pair of booklung slits just behind 4th pair of legs. |
 | | Adult female body length about 2 7/8" (70 mm) and leg span of about 5" (130 mm), male body length about 2 9/16" (65 mm); color dirty yellowish brown with abdomen, leg coxa-trochanter-femur, and lst segment of pedipalps dark brown; found in Arizona. |
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