page_title: Lycosa tarantula
hierarchical_section_title: Lycosa tarantula
caption_attribution_description: English: Front view of Lycosa tarantula, Barcelona Español: Vista frontal de Lycosa tarentula, Barcelona
context_page_description: Lycosa tarantula is the species originally known as the tarantula, a name that nowadays commonly refers to spiders in another family entirely, the Theraphosidae. It now may be better called the tarantula wolf spider, being in the wolf spider family, the Lycosidae. L. tarantula is a large species found in southern Europe, especially in the Apulia region of Italy and near the city of Taranto, from which it gets its name.
  Historical superstition has it that the spider's bite can produce severe symptoms called tarantism.
context_section_description: Lycosa tarantula is the species originally known as the tarantula, a name that nowadays commonly refers to spiders in another family entirely, the Theraphosidae. It now may be better called the tarantula wolf spider, being in the wolf spider family, the Lycosidae. L. tarantula is a large species found in southern Europe, especially in the Apulia region of Italy and near the city of Taranto, from which it gets its name.
  Historical superstition has it that the spider's bite can produce severe symptoms called tarantism.
caption: Frontal view of Lycosa tarantula
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