Foveosa foveolata
| Pale Tip Leg Foveosa Wolf Spider | |
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| male | |
| male | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Lycosidae |
| Genus: | Foveosa |
| Species: | F. foveolata
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| Binomial name | |
| Foveosa foveolata (Purcell, 1903)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Foveosa foveolata is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae.[1] It occurs in Central, East, and Southern Africa and is commonly known as the pale tip leg Foveosa wolf spider.[2]
Distribution
Foveosa foveolata has a wide distribution throughout Central, East, and Southern Africa.[1] It is found from South Africa to Ethiopia in the northeast and Equatorial Guinea in the west.[3] In South Africa, the species is known from seven provinces at elevations ranging from 5 to 2985 m, including more than ten protected areas.[2]
Habitat
The species occurs in a wide range of different natural and human-modified habitats.[3] It is a free-running ground dweller sampled from the Fynbos, Grassland, Thicket, and Savanna biomes.[2] It has also been sampled from crops such as citrus and pistachio orchards.[2]
Description
Conservation
Foveosa foveolata is listed as Least Concern by the South African National Biodiversity Institute due to its wide geographical range.[2] The species is known from more than ten protected areas in South Africa.[2]
Taxonomy
The species was originally described by William Frederick Purcell in 1903 as Pardosa foveolata from Port St. Johns in South Africa.[4]
References
- ^ a b c "Foveosa foveolata (Purcell, 1903)". World Spider Catalog. World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
- ^ a b c d e f Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S.; Haddad, C.R.; Foord, S.H.; Lotz, L.N. (2021). The Lycosidae of South Africa. Version 1: part 1 (A-H). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide. pp. 45–46. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6324709. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- ^ a b Russell-Smith, A.; Alderweireldt, M.; Jocqué, R. (2007). "On the new genus Foveosa accommodating the Afrotropical wolf spiders related to Pardosa foveolata (Araneae: Lycosidae)". Journal of Afrotropical Zoology. 3: 59–76.
- ^ Purcell, W.F. (1903). "New South African spiders of the families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Barychelidae Dipluridae, and Lycosidae". Annals of the South African Museum. 3: 69–142.