Dolomedes scriptus

Dolomedes scriptus is a fishing spider found in the United States and Canada,^[1] known as the striped fishing spider.^[2] Female spiders can grow to be over 6 cm in legspan. The spider is a pale brown colour with lighter stripes around its legs and a stripe down each side of the body. It is similar to D. tenebrosus.

Striped fishing spider
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Dolomedidae
Genus:	Dolomedes
Species:	D. scriptus
Binomial name
Dolomedes scriptus (Hentz, 1845)[1]
Synonyms[1]
D. fontanus Emerton, 1885