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Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Hogna  Simon, 1885   23 species

Hogna ferox  (Lucas, 1838)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017985

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Description
Male

Prosoma brownish with ochre median and lateral bands. Sternum ochre. Legs yellowish brown, somewhat darker distally. Opisthosoma brownish with light median band; behind brown cardiac mark with triangular spots; ventrally light yellowish brown.

Body length male: 13.3-17.1 mm
Female

Often lighter in colouration than males.

Body length female: 18-22 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Greece (Crete) and Cyprus: misidentified per Logunov (2020), see H. effera
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Canary Is., Madeira, Spain, Malta, North Africa
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Hepner & Paulus 2009)

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male Pedipalp, lateral view
(Abdel-Ghani et al. 2023)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Abdel-Ghani et al. 2023)

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female Epigyne
(Hepner & Paulus 2009)

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female Epigyne
(Logunov 2020)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Hepner & Paulus 2009)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Logunov 2020)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Abdel-Ghani et al. 2023)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

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   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019; Lecigne, 2012) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||
References

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

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

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

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

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

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

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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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