Hogna schreineri

Hogna schreineri is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae. It is found in southern Africa and is commonly known as Schreiner's burrow-living wolf spider.

Distribution

Hogna schreineri is found in Namibia and South Africa. In South Africa, it is recorded from Limpopo and the Northern Cape provinces.

Habitat and ecology

This species is a ground dweller that lives in open burrows. It has been sampled from the Grassland and Savanna biomes at altitudes ranging from 1011 to 1358 m.

Description

Hogna schreineri is known from both sexes.
The carapace is brown with dark, whitish hairy stripes, weak wavy ends, whitish hairy submarginal bands, and an equally hairy narrow median band.
The abdomen is dorsally blackish with a broad light yellowish central field running almost to the rear end, bordered by a blackish, black-trimmed median trapezoid in front and black square spots at the back. On each side are two large blackish spots. Ventrally, the sternum and coxae are black. The chelicerae are blackish and frontally yellowish hairy.

Conservation

The species has a large geographic range and is protected in Benfontein Game Reserve, Rooipoort Nature Reserve, and Lekgalameetse Nature Reserve.

Etymology

The species is named after S.C. Cronwright Schreiner, who collected specimens at Hanover in the Cape Colony.

Taxonomy

The species was originally described by Purcell in 1903 as Lycosa schreineri from Farm Palmietfontein in Hanover, Northern Cape. It was later revised by Roewer in 1960.