Wolf Spiders

Small, litter-dwelling wolf spiders with indistinct brownish colouration; differ from the similar genus Artoriopsis in the lack of a distinct light marginal band on the carapace and the distinctive abdominal pattern of that genus.

Differs from Venator by the lack of a retrolateral incision in the tegular apophysis of the male pedipalp and the lack of sharp lateral edges of the epigyne atrium in females. It differs from Knoelle by the lack of a large patch of apical setae on the male pedipalp cymbium.

Overall brown-mottled coluoration; three quarters of the ventral abdomen is coloured black. Unique genitalia with quadrate tegular apophysis in males, rectangular plate with few features in females.

Distinctive medium-sized wolf spiders with a distinct anterior triangle on an otherwise uniformly grey abdomen.

Female epigyne with the distance between the anterior pockets greater than the width of the posterior transverse part; patch of up to 30 dorsally curved macrosetae on the tip of the cymbium in males.

The male tegular apophysis is a simple triangle and the female epigyne inverted T-shaped. However, it is unlikely that Australian speices truely belong to Hogna, which was originally described from the Mediterranean.

Differs from all other Lycosidnae by the presence of a large patch of macrosetae at the tip of the cymbium in males.

Species in this section can currently not be assigned to a genus.

Very small wolf spiders of less than 3 mm body length. Male pedipalp lacks tegular apophysis.