| Lawrence'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. lawrencei |
| Binomial name | |
| Hogna lawrencei (Roewer, 1960) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
The species is named after Reginald Frederick Lawrence, a South African arachnologist who made significant contributions to the study of southern African spiders. [3]
The species was originally described by Roewer in 1960 as Lycorma lawrencei from Kimberley in the Northern Cape. [3]
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