Hogna zuluana
| Banded burrow-living wolf spider | |
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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. zuluana
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| Binomial name | |
| Hogna zuluana Roewer, 1959
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Hogna zuluana is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae.[1] It is endemic to South Africa and is commonly known as the banded burrow-living wolf spider.[2]
Distribution
Hogna zuluana is found in four provinces of South Africa, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga.[2]
Habitat and ecology
This species is a free-living ground dweller that lives in open burrows.[2]
It has been sampled from the Grassland and Savanna biomes at altitudes ranging from 91 to 1730 m.[2]
Description
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Hogna zuluana is known only from females.[2]
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.[3]
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.[3]
Conservation
The species has a large geographic range and is protected in Roodeplaatdam Nature Reserve, Faerie Glenn Nature Reserve, Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve, uMkhuze Game Reserve, and Kruger National Park.[2]
Etymology
Hogna zuluana is named after Zululand, a historical region in KwaZulu-Natal where the type locality is situated.[3]
Taxonomy
The species was described by Roewer in 1959, with the type locality given only as Zululand.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Hogna zuluana Roewer, 1959". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
- ^ a b c d e f 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. 71. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6324709.
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- ^ a b c d Roewer, C.F. (1959). "Araneae Lycosaeformia II (Lycosidae)". Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte. 55: 465, f. 258a-c.