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Hogna unicolor
Species of spider From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hogna unicolor is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae.[1] It is found in southern Africa and is commonly known as the Mozambique burrow-living wolf spider.[2]
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Distribution
Hogna unicolor is found in Mozambique and South Africa.[2] In South Africa, it is recorded from Gauteng and the Western Cape provinces.[2]
Habitat and ecology
This species is a free-living ground dweller that lives in burrows that are open and not closed with a trapdoor.[2] It has been sampled from the Grassland and Fynbos biomes at altitudes ranging from 63 to 1730 m.[2]
Description
Hogna unicolor is known from both sexes.[2]
The cephalothorax is brown, turning uniformly black-brown towards the sides without any banding. The eye field is black.[3]
The abdomen is dorsally evenly brown like the cephalothorax and hairy grey-white but without any markings. Ventrally, the sternum is completely black.[3]
The legs are brown, with the third and especially fourth tibia ventral-apical and ventral-basal blackened. The chelicerae are dark brown.[3]
Conservation
Hogna unicolor has a large geographic range and is protected in Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve, Ezemvelo Nature Reserve, and Bontebok National Park.[2]
Etymology
The species name unicolor refers to the uniform, unmarked coloration of the spider.
Taxonomy
Hogna unicolor was described by Roewer in 1959 from Mozambique.[3]
References
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