The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/18000

Hogna helluo (Walckenaer, 1837)

FAMILY: LYCOSIDAE Sundevall, 1833
    Genus: Hogna Simon, 1885

        Species: Hogna helluo (Walckenaer, 1837)

Common Names

Family Common Name:  wolf spiders
Genus Common Name:  none
Species Common Name:  none

Distribution

Global Distribution: USA, Canada
Nearctic States & Provinces:   CO KS NJ OK SC TX VA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected: 


Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)

Feeding Guild:  ground runners
Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280.
Recorded Habitats:  (not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Seasonality of Specimen Records:


Image(s) of Habitus:


Credit: Dept. Entomology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Details About Males

Description:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Image of External Male Genitalia:  (image not yet available)

Details About Females

Description:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Image of Epigynum:  (image not yet available)

Synonyms and Chresonyms

Hogna helluo Walckenaer 1837
Lycosa helluo Walckenaer 1837
Lycosa sayi Walckenaer 1837
Lycosa babingtoni Blackwall 1846
Tarentula vafra C. L. Koch 1847
Leimonia helluo Simon 1864
Leimonia sayi Simon 1864
Tarentula helvipes Keyserling 1877
Lycosa nidicola Emerton 1885
Lycosa crudelis Banks 1892
Lycosa nidicola Emerton 1902
Lycosa nidicola Montgomery 1902
Lycosa nidicola Chamberlin 1908
Lycosa helluo Comstock 1912
Lycosa helluo Comstock 1940
Lycosa helluo Muma 1943
Lycosa helluo Kaston 1948
Hogna helluo Roewer 1955
Hogna helluo Dondale & Redner 1990
Hogna helluo Bennett 1992
Lycosa helluo Griswold 1993
Hogna helluo Paquin & Dupérré 2003

Taxonomic References

Banks, N. 1892. The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1892: 11-81.

Bennett, R. G. 1992. The spermathecal pores of spiders with special reference to dictynoids and amaurobioids (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Araneoclada). Proc. ent. Soc. Ontario 123: 1-21.

Blackwall, J. 1846. Notice of spiders captured by Professor Potter in Canada, with descriptions of such species as appear to be new to science. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 17: 30-44, 76-82.

Chamberlin, R. V. 1908. Revision of North American spiders of the family Lycosidae. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 60: 158-318.

Comstock, J. H. 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, xi + 727 pp.

Comstock, J. H. 1912. The spider book; a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Garden City, New York, pp. 1-721

Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1990. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 17. The wolf spiders, nurseryweb spiders, and lynx spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Lycosidae, Pisauridae, and Oxyopidae. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1856: 1-383.

Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.

Emerton, J. H. 1885. New England Lycosidae. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 6: 481-505.

Griswold, C. E. 1993. Investigations into the phylogeny of the lycosoid spiders and their kin (Arachnida: Araneae: Lycosoidea). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 539: 1-39.

Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.

Keyserling, E. 1877. Ueber amerikanische Spinnenarten der Unterordnung Citigradae. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 26: 609-708.

Koch, C. L. 1847. Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Vierzehnter Band, pp. 89-210, Funfzehnter Band, pp. 1-136, Sechszehnter Band, pp. 1-80.

Montgomery, T. H. 1902. Descriptions of Lycosidae and Oxyopidae of Philadelphia and its vicinity. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 54: 534-592.

Muma, M. H. 1943. Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp.

Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.

Roewer, C. F. 1955. Katalog der Araneen von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. Bruxelles, 2: 1-1751.

Simon, E. 1864. Histoire naturelle des araignées (aranéides). Paris, pp. 1-540.

Walckenaer, C. A. 1837. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Paris, 1: 1-682.

Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/LYCOSIDAE.html

Other Nearctic Members of Genus Hogna Simon, 1885‡‡

H. ammophila (Wallace, 1942) ...............USA
H. angusta (Tullgren, 1901) ...............USA
H. annexa (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944) ...............USA
H. antelucana (Montgomery, 1904) ...............USA
H. aspersa (Hentz, 1844) ...............USA, Canada
H. baltimoriana (Keyserling, 1877) ...............USA, Canada
H. carolinensis (Walckenaer, 1805) ...............USA, Mexico
H. coloradensis (Banks, 1894) ...............USA
H. ericeticola (Wallace, 1942) ...............USA
H. frondicola (Emerton, 1885) ...............USA, Canada
H. hawaiiensis (Simon, 1899) ...............Hawaii
H. labrea (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942) ...............USA
H. lenta (Hentz, 1844) ...............USA
H. likelikeae (Simon, 1900) ...............Hawaii
H. miami (Wallace, 1942) ...............USA
H. osceola (Gertsch & Wallace, 1937) ...............USA
H. permunda (Chamberlin, 1904) ...............USA
H. posticata (Banks, 1904) ...............USA
H. pseudoceratiola (Wallace, 1942) ...............USA
H. suprenans (Chamberlin, 1924) ...............USA
H. tigana (Gertsch & Wallace, 1935) ...............USA
H. timuqua (Wallace, 1942) ...............USA
H. wallacei (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944) ...............USA
H. watsoni (Gertsch, 1934) ...............USA

‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution