Biology:Hogna lawrencei
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Lycosidae |
| Genus: | Hogna |
| Species: | H. lawrencei
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| Hogna lawrencei (Roewer, 1960)
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Hogna lawrencei is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae.[1] It is found in southern Africa and is commonly known as Lawrence's burrow-living wolf spider.[2]
Distribution
Hogna lawrencei is found in Botswana and South Africa.[2]
In South Africa, it is known from Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Northern Cape.[2]
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 91 to 1647 m.[2]
Description
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female, ventral view
Hogna lawrencei is known only from females.[2]
The cephalothorax has a rusty yellow eye field that is finely bordered with black, without traces of light longitudinal bands. The eye area is dark.[3]
Dorsally, it is uniformly pale in the midfield, with a hardly distinct, blurred, light-colored wedge mark at the front median and no further markings behind. The abdomen is ventrally pale yellow, but the epigyne area is black.[3]
The sternum and coxae are pale yellow, while other leg segments are rust yellow and not darker ringed. The chelicerae are red-brown and frontally yellowish hairy.[3]
Conservation
The species has a large geographic range and is protected in Faerie Glen Nature Reserve, Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve, Ndumo Game Reserve, and Tembe Elephant Park.[2]
Etymology
The species is named after Reginald Frederick Lawrence, a South African arachnologist who made significant contributions to the study of southern African spiders.[3]
Taxonomy
The species was originally described by Roewer in 1960 as Lycorma lawrencei from Kimberley in the Northern Cape.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Hogna lawrencei (Roewer, 1960)". World Spider Catalog. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/species/19727.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S.; Haddad, C.R.; Foord, S.H.; Lotz, L.N. (2021). The Lycosidae of South Africa. Version 1: part 1 (A-H). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide. p. 64. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6324709.
This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Roewer, C.F. (1960). "Araneae Lycosaeformia II (Lycosidae) (Fortsetzung und Schluss)". Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte 55: 800, f. 445a-b.
External links
- {{Inaturalist taxon}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
Wikidata ☰ Q1839281 entry
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