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title: "White-banded Fishing Spider"
description: "Dolomedes albineus — Insects & spiders. Dolomedes albineus, the white-banded fishing spider, is a species of spider in the family Dolomedidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/white-banded-fishing-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# White-banded Fishing Spider

> Dolomedes albineus — Insects & spiders. Dolomedes albineus, the white-banded fishing spider, is a species of spider in the family Dolomedidae.

- Scientific name: *Dolomedes albineus*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lakes & rivers)
- iNaturalist observations: 11948
- Wikidata: [Q2292412](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2292412)
- iNaturalist taxon: [362543](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/362543)

## Names

- en: White-banded Fishing Spider
- es: Araña pescadora de banda blanca

## Countries with the most observations

US (11481)

## Summary

Dolomedes albineus, the white-banded fishing spider, is a species of spider in the family Dolomedidae. It is found in the United States. Like most Dolomedes, this spider tends to hunt at or in streams and ponds. It has special hairs that repel water, allowing it to walk on water, and trap an air bubble on its abdomen to dive and swim, so that it can hunt tadpoles and aquatic invertebrates.

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

## Photo

![White-banded Fishing Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-banded-fishing-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Brady Reed · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13185851

## Machine access

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