Forrest's Wolf Spider Hoggicosa forresti (McKay, 1973)
Fauna Portal species: 6353
Hoggicosa forresti male, dorsal (WAM T65610; Lorna Glen Station, Western Australia)
Image: Langlands & Framenau (2010; fig. 1C)
Fauna Portal Image No. 4950Diagnosis
(after Langlands & Framenau 2010): Most similar to H. forresti are H. brennani and H. castanea. Males and females of H. forresti may be distinguished from both by the presence of a prominent black lanceolate stripe on the anterior of the dorsal abdomen. In addition, H. brennani has a pale venter with dark patterning compared with the black venter of H. forresti and H. castanea. McKay (1973) indicated the leg colouration of H. forresti, with a pale diamond on the femur, as a diagnostic feature, but females of H. castanea can also display this leg coloration, but lack a dark lanceolate stripe. Males of H. forresti may be distinguished from H. castanea by the pars pendula, which is thin and transparent and joins below the embolus tip, whereas in H. castanea it is thick and opaque and joins at the tip of the embolus. The tegular apophysis may be used to distinguish H. brennani males, which have a flange on the ventral process that is lacking in H. forresti.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Similar Species
Publications
(2010): Systematic revision of Hoggicosa Roewer, 1960, the Australian 'bicolor' group of wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 158: 83 - 123
(1973): The wolf spiders of Australia (Araneae: Lycosidae): 1. The bicolor group. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 16: 375 - 398