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title: "Woodland Giant Wolf Spider"
description: "Tigrosa aspersa — Insects & spiders. Tigrosa aspersa is a large (up to one-inch (25 mm) body length) wolf spider that inhabits the eastern United States."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/woodland-giant-wolf-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Woodland Giant Wolf Spider

> Tigrosa aspersa — Insects & spiders. Tigrosa aspersa is a large (up to one-inch (25 mm) body length) wolf spider that inhabits the eastern United States.

- Scientific name: *Tigrosa aspersa*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 2796
- Wikidata: [Q27502861](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27502861)
- iNaturalist taxon: [455062](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/455062)

## Names

- en: Woodland Giant Wolf Spider

## Countries with the most observations

US (1344), CA (260)

## Summary

Tigrosa aspersa is a large (up to one-inch (25 mm) body length) wolf spider that inhabits the eastern United States. Compared to its close relative Tigrosa helluo, T. aspersa is much larger. This species was known as Hogna aspersa prior to 2012, when it was moved to Tigrosa.
A different species (Lycosa implacida) was named Lycosa aspersa in 1849 by Nicolet by accident.

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

## Photo

![Woodland Giant Wolf Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/woodland-giant-wolf-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Caitlin Domon · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/342669657

## Machine access

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