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title: "Western Variable Wolf Spider"
description: "Venator immansuetus — Insects & spiders. Venator immansuetus is a wolf spider (i.e., in the Lycosidae family), endemic to Australia and found in the south-west of Western Australia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/western-variable-wolf-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Western Variable Wolf Spider

> Venator immansuetus — Insects & spiders. Venator immansuetus is a wolf spider (i.e., in the Lycosidae family), endemic to Australia and found in the south-west of Western Australia.

- Scientific name: *Venator immansuetus*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 708
- Wikidata: [Q27502867](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27502867)
- iNaturalist taxon: [828622](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/828622)

## Names

- en: Western Variable Wolf Spider

## Countries with the most observations

AU (405)

## Summary

Venator immansuetus is a wolf spider (i.e., in the Lycosidae family), endemic to Australia and found in the south-west of Western Australia.
It was first described in 1909 by Eugène Simon as Lycosa immansueta, and transferred to the genus, Venator by Volker Framenau in 2015.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venator_immansuetus

## Photo

![Western Variable Wolf Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/western-variable-wolf-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: hammondz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/159632020

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/western-variable-wolf-spider?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).