Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Hogna  Simon, 1885   23 species

Hogna radiata minor (Simon, 1876)

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 3 mm. No illustrations available.

Body length male: 7 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 5 mm.

Body length female: 12 mm
Additional information

Roewer (1959b) lists a male and a female from Crete.

See comment sub H. radiata concerning the status of the subspecies.

For records from France (J.-P. Taberlet, pers. comm.) and comparison between H. radiata and this subspecies see photo gallery.

 

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Mediterranean
Figures
Distribution List
France / Corsica   (Simon, 1876a) ||| Greece / Crete   (Roewer, 1959b) ||| Italy  Removed (Pantini & Isaia, 2018) ||| Libya   (Zavattari, 1934) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) |||
References

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

Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018). pdf

Roewer C F (1959b) Araneae Lycosaeformia II (Lycosidae). Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte 55: 1-518 pdf

Simon E (1876a) Les arachnides de France 3. Paris (Roret): 1-374 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zavattari E (1934) Prodromo della Fauna della Libia. Pavia, 1234 pp. (Araneae, pp.144-168) pdf

Updates
05-02-2026 Distribution update Detail
18-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
17-03-2023 Distribution update Detail
02-11-2015 Distribution update Detail
02-11-2015 Image insert