Hogna zuluana
Hogna zuluana is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae. It is endemic to South Africa and is commonly known as the banded burrow-living wolf spider.
Distribution
Hogna zuluana is found in four provinces of South Africa, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga.Habitat and ecology
This species is a free-living ground dweller that lives in open burrows.It has been sampled from the Grassland and Savanna biomes at altitudes ranging from 91 to 1730 m.
Description
Hogna zuluana is known only from females.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.
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.