Hogna unicolor
Hogna unicolor is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae. It is found in southern Africa and is commonly known as the Mozambique burrow-living wolf spider.
Distribution
Hogna unicolor is found in Mozambique and South Africa. In South Africa, it is recorded from Gauteng and the Western Cape provinces.Habitat and ecology
This species is a free-living ground dweller that lives in burrows that are open and not closed with a trapdoor. It has been sampled from the Grassland and Fynbos biomes at altitudes ranging from 63 to 1730 m.Description
Hogna unicolor is known from both sexes.The cephalothorax is brown, turning uniformly black-brown towards the sides without any banding. The eye field is black.
The abdomen is dorsally evenly brown like the cephalothorax and hairy grey-white but without any markings. Ventrally, the sternum is completely black.
The legs are brown, with the third and especially fourth tibia ventral-apical and ventral-basal blackened. The chelicerae are dark brown.