Hoggicosa

Langlands, Peter R. & Framenau, Volker W., 2010, Systematic revision of Hoggicosa Roewer, 1960, the Australian ‘ bicolor’ group of wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (1), pp. 83-123 : 90

BIOGEOGRAPHY OF HOGGICOSA

All Hoggicosa species display broad geographical distributions, with some found over all of inland Australia ( H. castanea , H. alfi , and H. bicolor , Figs 10, 12, 14). This is not surprising as wolf spiders are capable of ballooning ( Greenstone, 1982) and are highly mobile. With a distribution typical of Eyrean fauna ( Heatwole, 1987) it is possible that speciation in Hoggicosa occurred following the aridification of Australia, as seen in many other Australian groups of fauna and flora (see review by Byrne et al., 2008).