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title: "Stone Spider"
description: "Pardosa lapidicina — Insetti e ragni. Pardosa lapidicina, the stone spider, is a species of wolf spider in the family Lycosidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/stone-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Stone Spider

> Pardosa lapidicina — Insetti e ragni. Pardosa lapidicina, the stone spider, is a species of wolf spider in the family Lycosidae.

- Scientific name: *Pardosa lapidicina*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 3749
- Wikidata: [Q3156619](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3156619)
- iNaturalist taxon: [153799](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/153799)

## Names

- en: Stone Spider

## Countries with the most observations

US (448), CA (131), MX (12)

## Summary

Pardosa lapidicina, the stone spider, is a species of wolf spider in the family Lycosidae. 
Location: It is found in the United States and Canada. primary near water. 
Description: Around 6-9 mm, dark-colored wolf spider, 30-70 mg in size when fully matured.

A study by Douglass Morse at Brown University focused in on the wolf spider Pardosa lapidicina studied their behavior, observing the species was commonly found on cobble beaches above the tide line about Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA and studied migration patterns among the tidelines. The species size was found to be 30 individuals/0.5 m along the shoreline…

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

## Photo

![Stone Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/stone-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Etienne Falquet · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121521533

## Machine access

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