Animals Named for Richard Archbold - Geolycosa archboldi, Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, Florida, 11November 2006, Fred E. Lohrer.

Archbold Biological Station founded in 1941 by Richard Archbold

Animals named for Richard Archbold: Geolycosa xera archboldi (Araneae: Lycosidae).

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Geolycosa xera archboldi (Araneae: Lycosidae). McCrones’s burrowing wolf spider, a central Florida endemic. Photo by H. K. Wallace.--McCrone, J.D. 1963. Taxonomic status and evolutionary history of the Geolycosa pikei complex in the southeastern United States (Araneae, Lycosidae). Am. Midl. Nat. 70:47-73. -- The type specimen of this spider was collected at the intersection of State Road 70 and State Road 17 (now called Old State Road 8), Highlands Co., Florida, on 25 October 1957 by H. K. Wallace.