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Hogna simoni
Species of spider From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hogna simoni is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae.[1] It is found in Africa and is commonly known as the spotted burrow-living wolf spider.[2]
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Distribution
Hogna simoni is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, and South Africa.[2]
In South Africa, it is known only from KwaZulu-Natal province.[2]
Habitat and ecology
This species is a free-living ground dweller that lives in open burrows.[2]
In South Africa, it has been sampled from the Savanna biome at an altitude of 131 m.[2]
Description
Hogna simoni is known from both sexes.[2]
The cephalothorax has a red-brown eye field with dark radial bands, broad medially wavy margins, white-coated marginal bands, and a narrow white hairy median band barely broadened in front of the striae.[3]
The abdomen is dorsally rusty yellow and pale hairy, with a broad lanceolate reddish-yellow median band in front that has whisker-like dot flecks.[3] Behind this are five to six whisker-like angular flecks.[3]
The legs are rusty yellow and white hairy, with the femora dorsally slightly darker.[3]
The chelicerae are black and frontally whitish hairy.[3]
Conservation
The species has a large geographic range in Africa and is protected in uMkhuze Game Reserve in South Africa.[2]
Etymology
The species is named after Eugène Simon, a prominent French arachnologist who made extensive contributions to spider taxonomy.
Taxonomy
The species was described by Roewer in 1959 from Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[3]
References
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