| Two-spotted burrow-living wolf spider | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Lycosidae |
| Genus: | Hogna |
| Species: | H. bimaculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Hogna bimaculata (Purcell, 1903) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Hogna bimaculata is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae. [1] It is found in southern Africa and is commonly known as the two-spotted burrow-living wolf spider. [2]
Hogna bimaculata is found in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. [2]
In South Africa, it is recorded from Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo, and Western Cape. [2]
This species is a free-living ground dweller that lives in open burrows. [2]
It has been sampled from the Fynbos, Savanna, and Thicket biomes at altitudes ranging from 60 to 1730 m. [2]
Hogna bimaculata is known only from females. [2]
The cephalothorax has brown, whitish and yellowish intermingled hairs, with a yellowish median band [3]
The abdomen is dorsally blackish, on the front half with a spindle-shaped, brownish median band, which is slightly blackish-edged and each side is accompanied by a pale, broad streak which unites with the opposite side in front of the median band; ventrally black, sometimes behind with a pair of white hair spots. [3]
The species has a large geographic range and is protected in six protected areas. There are no significant threats to the species. [2]
The species was originally described by Purcell in 1903 as Lycosa bimaculata from East London, South Africa. [4] It was later revised by Roewer in 1959. [3]
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