Hogna ferox (Lucas, 1838) Lycorma ferox; Simon 1899: 84. Material examined: BERRIANE: Balouh, hand collecting, 1 ♀, 12.II.2021; 2 ♂, 6.IV.2021, pitfall traps, 1 ♀, 26.II.2021; 1 ♀, 5.III.2021; 2 ♀, 24.IV.2021. Sidi Mbarek, hand collecting, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 6.IV.2021, pitfall traps, 1 ♂, 18.II.2021; 1 ♀, 4.III.2021; 1 ♂, 11.III.2021; 1 ♂, 18.III.2021; 1 ♀, 2.IV.2021; 1 ♀, 9.IV.2021; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 16.IV.2021; 2 ♀, 23.IV.2021; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 29.IV.2021. DHAYET BENDHAHOUA: Grazil, hand collecting, 2 ♀, 25.III.2022; Oumdjer, hand collecting, 1 ♀, 25.III.2022. EL GUERRARA: hand collecting, 1 ♂, 15.II.2020; 1 ♂, 3.III.2020. Previous records in Algeria: Known only form Laghouat (Simon 1899). Distribution: Canary Islands, Madeira, Spain, Malta, North Africa (World Spider Catalog 2024).

Published as part of Alioua, Youcef & Bosmans, Robert, 2024, Spiders of arid lands: The Ghardaïa region (Northern Sahara) with seven new records for Algeria, pp. 301-336 in Zootaxa 5497 (3) on page 315, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13618579