Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Hogna  Simon, 1885   23 species

Hogna ferox (Lucas, 1838)

Beschreibung
Männchen

Prosoma bräunlich mit ockerfarbenen Mittel- und Seitenbändern. Sternum ocker. Beine gelblich-braun, distal etwas dunkler. Opisthosoma dorsal bräunlich mit hellem Medianband, hinter braunem Herzfleck dreieckige Flecken; ventral hell gelblich braun.

Körperlänge Männchen: 13.3-17.1 mm
Weibchen

Häufig etwas heller in der Färbung.

Körperlänge Weibchen: 18-22 mm
Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  kein Nachweis
Verbreitung Kommentar: Griechenland (Kreta) und Zypern: Fehlbestimmungen nach Logunov (2020), siehe H. effera
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Canary Is., Madeira, Spain, Malta, North Africa
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise
Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Cyprus  Removed (Bosmans et al., 2019c; Logunov, 2020) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Greece / Crete  Removed (Lecigne, 2016c; Logunov, 2020) ||| Libya   (Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019; Lecigne, 2012) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
Literatur

Abdel-Ghani D M A, Hassan F M, Sallam G M E (2023) Spiders as a bio-agent factor in a mango greenhouse at Giza Governorate, Egypt. Serket 20: 26-38 pdf

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 pdf

Hepner M, Paulus H F (2009) Contributions on the wolf spider fauna (Araneae, Lycosidae) of Gran Canaria (Spain). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14: 339-346 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Lecigne S (2012) Inventaire aranéologique (Arachnida, Araneae) dans la ville d’Estepona (Malaga, Espagne). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 21: 161-167 pdf

Lecigne S (2016c) Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) de Crète (Grèce) et description de la femelle inconnue de Neaetha absheronica Logunov & Guseinov, 2002 (Salticidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 30: 95-118 pdf

Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184 pdf

Logunov D V (2020) On three species of Hogna Simon, 1885 (Aranei: Lycosidae) from the Near East and Central Asia. Arthropoda Selecta 29: 349-360 pdf

Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110 pdf

Pinilla Rosa M, Menéndez M (2024) La enigmática presencia de Hogna ferox (Lucas, 1838) (Araneae: Lycosidae) en el delta del Ebro (Cataluña, España): nuevos datos sobre su aspecto, distribución y hábitat potencial en la Península Ibérica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 45: 142-144 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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