Hogna unicolor
| Mozambique 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. unicolor
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| Binomial name | |
| Hogna unicolor Roewer, 1959
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Hogna unicolor is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae.[1] It is found in southern Africa and is commonly known as the Mozambique burrow-living wolf spider.[2]
Distribution
[edit]Hogna unicolor is found in Mozambique and South Africa.[2] In South Africa, it is recorded from Gauteng and the Western Cape provinces.[2]
Habitat and ecology
[edit]This species is a free-living ground dweller that lives in burrows that are open and not closed with a trapdoor.[2] It has been sampled from the Grassland and Fynbos biomes at altitudes ranging from 63 to 1730 m.[2]
Description
[edit]Hogna unicolor is known from both sexes.[2]
The cephalothorax is brown, turning uniformly black-brown towards the sides without any banding. The eye field is black.[3]
The abdomen is dorsally evenly brown like the cephalothorax and hairy grey-white but without any markings. Ventrally, the sternum is completely black.[3]
The legs are brown, with the third and especially fourth tibia ventral-apical and ventral-basal blackened. The chelicerae are dark brown.[3]
Conservation
[edit]Hogna unicolor has a large geographic range and is protected in Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve, Ezemvelo Nature Reserve, and Bontebok National Park.[2]
Etymology
[edit]The species name unicolor refers to the uniform, unmarked coloration of the spider.
Taxonomy
[edit]Hogna unicolor was described by Roewer in 1959 from Mozambique.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Hogna unicolor Roewer, 1959". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
- ^ a b c d e f g 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. 70. 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: 474, f. 264a-b.
