| De Wet's 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. deweti |
| Binomial name | |
| Hogna deweti Roewer, 1959 | |
Hogna deweti is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae. [1] It is endemic to South Africa and is commonly known as De Wet's burrow-living wolf spider. [2]
Hogna deweti is known only from South Africa, with the type locality given simply as Karoo. [2]
This species is a free-living ground dweller that lives in open burrows. [2]
Hogna deweti is known only from males. [2]
The cephalothorax is dark brown with a black eye field and a medially wavy marginal band. These three bands are sharp, pale yellow, and densely covered in white hair. [3]
The abdomen is dorsally grey-brown, with a narrow, almost parallel-sided and broadly black-edged long mark at the anterior median in a light whitish-yellow field of the middle third. Behind this are four blackish median angular spots. The ventral abdomen is uniformly black. The sternum and coxae are rusty yellow in color. [3]
The status of the species remains unclear. Additional sampling is needed to collect females and determine the full geographic range. [2]
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