Do you have any wolf spiders (Lycosidae) collected in the last couple of years? If so, I am looking for specimens from any species and any location *in the world* to add to a genetic study of the family. Let me know if you think you can help!
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I constantly amass leaf litter spiders in pitfalls and berleses, if you can be even slightly more specific about locations I would be happy to set some aside in 95%. Recent ones are from Appalachia but I may also have some Australian material
Hi Ainsley! Literally any location is fine! If you have a list of species that would be helpful. Both Australia (from anywhere) and Appalachia (as a region) would be valuable for this work!
I just messaged to see if you're interested in the few that I have from Montana. Also I can work to acquire more this spring and summer if that's not too late.
Stone Valley Research Forest near State College PA. Forest interiors and edges, traps in the understory and canopy, using blue-vane traps, bee bowls, and a clear-vane trap. I'm getting about as many spiders in the canopy as in the understory funnily enough. n = 283. Not sure which are wolves tho.
T. terricola from Sweden would be brilliant! I am unsure who is curator at the Swedish NHM, but if you give me their name I can contact them. Additionally, if you do collect T. terricola, I have a specific interest in that species! We can arrange for the specimens to be sent through the museum.
Tobias Malm is the collections coordinater (and the one that showed me the wet collections with all the arachnids), he also work up in the entomological department next to my supervisor.
The more i think now tho, the more i realize that i dont know anyone there who specializes in arachnids...
It is okay if nobody specializes in arachnids. The name of the collections manager is enough to start. 😁 I found his email address and will send him an email in a few minutes.
Tobias emailed me. Please contact him and he will help you send specimens to me if you collect any wolf spiders, including Trochosa. 😁 Ah, yes, Kronestedt is a good idea. I will email him. Thank you!
I may be of help to you, haha... I'm huge into lycosids currently and can collect you a huge variety of genera from North Central Texas! Hogna, Tigrosa, Shizocosa, Varacosa, Gladicosa, Trochosa, Pardosa, etc
Hogna anteculenta, and *possibly* H. incognita (undescribed), Texas specific animal... Trochosa sepulchralis? Haven't really gotten to species on a few... I also see Varacosa, which need some ID
Hi Brian! I wonder which markers will you be using? I do have Lycosids we collected from Hawaii and some from Fr. Guyana. It's research material under study but we might use the same markers to get data we can share. I could probably ask the members of the French Arachnology Association for samples
@kaina-privet.bsky.social to be clear, this is general ngs. I hope to extract mitogenomes and ultraconserved elements (UCEs) from the assembled contigs.
I have heard that soaking in water for several hours can help increase the probability of getting usable DNA, so I'm willing to try. Can you message me? You seem to have messaging turned off (which I completely understand!).
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I volunteer at the swedish museum of natural history and they definately got some, very unsure how recently theyve been collected tho 🫤
The more i think now tho, the more i realize that i dont know anyone there who specializes in arachnids...
Raul Vincente, whos done work at Lund University in the south of Sweden was also mentioned.