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Hogna bimaculata
Species of spider From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hogna bimaculata is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae.[1] It is found in southern Africa and is commonly known as the two-spotted burrow-living wolf spider.[2]
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Distribution
Hogna bimaculata is found in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.[2]
In South Africa, it is recorded from Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo, and Western Cape.[2]
Habitat and ecology
This species is a free-living ground dweller that lives in open burrows.[2]
It has been sampled from the Fynbos, Savanna, and Thicket biomes at altitudes ranging from 60 to 1730 m.[2]
Description
Hogna bimaculata is known only from females.[2]
The cephalothorax has brown, whitish and yellowish intermingled hairs, with a yellowish median band[3]
The abdomen is dorsally blackish, on the front half with a spindle-shaped, brownish median band, which is slightly blackish-edged and each side is accompanied by a pale, broad streak which unites with the opposite side in front of the median band; ventrally black, sometimes behind with a pair of white hair spots.[3]
Conservation
The species has a large geographic range and is protected in six protected areas. There are no significant threats to the species.[2]
Taxonomy
The species was originally described by Purcell in 1903 as Lycosa bimaculata from East London, South Africa.[4] It was later revised by Roewer in 1959.[3]
References
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