Two-toned Wolf Spider
S1, Male, profile
Ellura
Two-toned Wolf Spider
S1, Male, dorsal, close
 
                      
Two-toned Wolf Spider (Hoggicosa forresti)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)
Order: Spiders (Araneae)
Family: Wolf Spider (Lycosoidea: Lycosidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Two-toned Wolf Spider (Hoggicosa forresti)
This Photo:     🔍S1, Male, posterior🔎

Thank you Cael Gallery for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
A large male spider, 17mm body length, 55mm leg span.
After Cael id'ed our Tiger Wolf Spider (Hoggicosa castanea) we went looking for others we had photographed. We thought this was one, but Cael recognised the difference and said "The big difference here is the median streak on the abdomen and the black on the femur."

Copyright © 2018-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 17-Apr-2018
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.