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Hogna zuluana
Species of spider From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hogna zuluana is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae.[1] It is endemic to South Africa and is commonly known as the banded burrow-living wolf spider.[2]
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Distribution
Hogna zuluana is found in four provinces of South Africa, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga.[2]
Habitat and ecology
This species is a free-living ground dweller that lives in open burrows.[2]
It has been sampled from the Grassland and Savanna biomes at altitudes ranging from 91 to 1730 m.[2]
Description
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female
Hogna zuluana is known only from females.[2]
The cephalothorax is red-brown with straight rusty yellow marginal bands and a rusty yellow median band that is barely widened in front of the striae. The eye region is black.[3]
The abdomen is dorsally grey-brown, with an anterior median longitudinal angled blackish trapezoidal spot bordered on each side by three white hair spots that lie in a lateral light yellowish larger spot. Behind this are four to five median black angled spots accompanied on each side by a longitudinal row of three white-haired tufts. Ventrally, behind the pale yellow epigynal area, is a black median wedge mark surrounded by a black angular stripe that merges backwards to form a V. The sternum is pale yellow with a black median band.[3]
Conservation
The species has a large geographic range and is protected in Roodeplaatdam Nature Reserve, Faerie Glenn Nature Reserve, Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve, uMkhuze Game Reserve, and Kruger National Park.[2]
Etymology
Hogna zuluana is named after Zululand, a historical region in KwaZulu-Natal where the type locality is situated.[3]
Taxonomy
The species was described by Roewer in 1959, with the type locality given only as Zululand.[3]
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