''Trochosa ruricola'' is a wolf spider whose common name is rustic wolf spider. The females are but can reach , and the males are . Both sexes are dark brown and have a pale band that runs down to the

carapace A carapace is a Dorsum (biology), dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises. In turtles and tor ...

and continues to the abdomen. The spider hunts on the ground and often gets caught in pitfall traps. Females carry an egg sac around on their abdomen for around 3 weeks until spiderlings emerge and gather on the mother's back. Its habitat is in grassland, woodland, scrub, and lawns of

temperate Asia The World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) is a biogeographical system developed by the international Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) organization, formerly the International Working Group on Taxonomic Da ...

, Europe, and North America. Its distribution: "Europe to China, Japan, Korea. Introduced to North America, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Bermuda".

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Lycosidae Spiders of Europe Spiders of Asia Spiders of North America Spiders described in 1778 {{Lycosidae-stub