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title: "Variable Wolf Spider"
description: "Venator spenceri — Insectos y arañas. Venator spenceri is a wolf spider (i.e., in the Lycosidae family), endemic to Australia and found in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/variable-wolf-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Variable Wolf Spider

> Venator spenceri — Insectos y arañas. Venator spenceri is a wolf spider (i.e., in the Lycosidae family), endemic to Australia and found in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia.

- Scientific name: *Venator spenceri*
- Category: `insects` (Insectos y arañas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1715
- Wikidata: [Q2664102](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2664102)
- iNaturalist taxon: [473721](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/473721)

## Names

- en: Variable Wolf Spider

## Countries with the most observations

AU (696)

## Summary

Venator spenceri is a wolf spider (i.e., in the Lycosidae family), endemic to Australia and found in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia.
It was described in 1900 by Henry Roughton Hogg. Spiders of the genus Venator, including V. spenceri, are medium-sized wolf spiders with body lengths ranging from 9 to 22 millimeters. They typically exhibit a brownish coloration and possess a distinctive black patch covering the anterior three-quarters of the ventral surface. Venator spenceri can be distinguished from other wolf spiders by genitalic features. Females have an elevated atrium on the epigyne…

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Joshua S. Martin · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/222017240

## Machine access

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