Rabidosa punctulata

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|image_caption = Female Rabidosa punctulata collected at {{coordinates|36|N|80|W}}.

|taxon = Rabidosa punctulata

|authority = Hentz, 1844

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Rabidosa punctulata, the dotted wolf spider, is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae. It is found in areas of weeds and tall grasses. It is a light-brown and large wolf spider with stripes on the cephalothorax and an abdomen with light spots and a dark middle stripe. Its range spreads from Massachusetts west to Kansas south to Texas and Northern Florida.{{cite book|title=Common Spiders of North America|first=Richard Alan|last=Bradley|others=Illustrations by Steve Buchanan|page=159|publisher=University of California Press|year=2013|isbn=978-0-520-27488-4}}