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Genus of spiders

Tegenaria
Temporal range: Palaeogene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
A female Tegenaria domestica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Agelenidae
Genus: Tegenaria
Latreille, 1804
Type species
T. domestica (Clerck, 1757)
Species

129, see text

Synonyms
  • Aranea Linnaeus, 1758 (Suppressed)
  • Trichopus Templeton, 1834
  • Philoica Koch, 1837
  • Drassina Grube, 1862
  • Mevianops Mello-Leitão, 1941
  • Philoicides Mello-Leitão, 1944
  • Iamatega Kishida, 1955
  • Sabitega Kishida, 1955

Tegenaria is a genus of fast-running funnel weavers that occupy much of the Northern Hemisphere except for Japan and Indonesia. It was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1804, though many of its species have been moved elsewhere. The majority of these were moved to Eratigena, including the giant house spider (Eratigena atrica) and the hobo spider (Eratigena agrestis).

They can be difficult to identify because they resemble wolf spiders and other funnel-web spiders in their area, unless found in an area where they do not occur naturally. They live on sheet webs, usually stretching across the corner between two walls. They have eight eyes in two straight or almost straight rows. Size varies from one species to another, but the body length of adults can range from 10 millimetres (0.39 in) to 20 millimetres (0.79 in), not including the legs. The cardinal spider is the largest funnel weaver, with females that can grow up to 18 millimetres (0.71 in) long.

Species

As of May 2024 it contains 129 species:

References

  1. ^ "Gen. Tegenaria Latreille, 1804". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  2. Latreille, P. A. (1804). "Tableau methodique des Insectes". Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 24: 129–295.
  3. Bolzern, Angelo; Burckhardt, Daniel & Hänggi, Ambros (2013). "Phylogeny and taxonomy of European funnel-web spiders of the Tegenaria−Malthonica complex (Araneae: Agelenidae) based upon morphological and molecular data". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 168 (4): 723–848. doi:10.1111/zoj.12040.
  4. ^ "Genus Tegenaria". Bug Guide. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
  5. ^ Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 22–23.
  6. Roth, Vincent (1968). The spider genus Tegenaria in the Western Hemisphere (Agelenidae). American Museum Novitates.

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