Family: AGELENIDAE C. L. Koch, 1837
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Family Name Authority
Koch, C. L. 1837. Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Nürnberg, Heft 1, pp. 1-39.
Diagnosis
(Not yet recorded or unknown)
Characters
- Body Size: (Not yet recorded or unknown)
- Colour: (Not yet recorded or unknown)
- Carapace: (Not yet recorded or unknown)
- Eyes: (Not yet recorded or unknown)
- Chelicerae: (Not yet recorded or unknown)
- Legs: (Not yet recorded or unknown)
- Abdomen: (Not yet recorded or unknown)
- Spinnerets: (Not yet recorded or unknown)
Distribution
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Natural History
Feeding Guild:† sheet web builders
(General natural history not yet recorded or unknown)
†Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280.
Nearctic Taxonomic/Species Richness
Number of Nearctic Species: 91 (as documented in the World Spider Catalog & includes introductions)
Slice of AGELENIDAE relative taxonomic/species richness drawn exploded from all other Families each with greater than 50 member species in the Nearctic. (Requires Flash plug-in - refresh this page if chart not visible)
[Legend: Family (#species), Percentages: Relative to total number of Nearctic species]
Nearctic/Palearctic Genera
| # | Genus | Ref. | Common Name |
| 1 | Agelena Walckenaer, 1805 |  |
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| 2 | Agelenopsis Giebel, 1869 | |
grass spiders |
| 3 | Barronopsis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 | |
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| 4 | Calilena Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 | |
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| 5 | Hololena Chamberlin & Gertch, 1929 | |
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| 6 | Malthonica Simon, 1898 | |
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| 7 | Melpomene O. P.-Cambridge, 1898 | |
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| 8 | Novalena Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 | |
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| 9 | Rualena Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 | |
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| 10 | Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 | |
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| 11 | Tortolena Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 | |
Nearctic/Palearctic Species Images
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Additional Taxonomic and Natural History References
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