Hogna deweti


Hogna deweti is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae. It is endemic to South Africa and is commonly known as De Wet's burrow-living wolf spider.

Distribution

Hogna deweti is known only from South Africa, with the type locality given simply as Karoo.

Habitat and ecology

This species is a free-living ground dweller that lives in open burrows.

Description

Hogna deweti is known only from males.
The cephalothorax is dark brown with a black eye field and a medially wavy marginal band. These three bands are sharp, pale yellow, and densely covered in white hair.
The abdomen is dorsally grey-brown, with a narrow, almost parallel-sided and broadly black-edged long mark at the anterior median in a light whitish-yellow field of the middle third. Behind this are four blackish median angular spots. The ventral abdomen is uniformly black. The sternum and coxae are rusty yellow in color.

Conservation

The status of the species remains unclear. Additional sampling is needed to collect females and determine the full geographic range.