Hogna bimaculata is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae. It is found in southern Africa and is commonly known as the two-spotted burrow-living wolf spider.
Hogna bimaculata is found in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.
In South Africa, it is recorded from Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo, and Western Cape.
This species is a free-living ground dweller that lives in open burrows.
It has been sampled from the Fynbos, Savanna, and Thicket biomes at altitudes ranging from 60 to 1730 m.
Hogna bimaculata is known only from females.
The cephalothorax has brown, whitish and yellowish intermingled hairs, with a yellowish median band
The abdomen is dorsally blackish, on the front half with a spindle-shaped, brownish median band, which is slightly blackish-edged and each side is accompanied by a pale, broad streak which unites with the opposite side in front of the median band; ventrally black, sometimes behind with a pair of white hair spots.
The species has a large geographic range and is protected in six protected areas. There are no significant threats to the species.
The species was originally described by Purcell in 1903 as Lycosa bimaculata from East London, South Africa. It was later revised by Roewer in 1959.