Agelenopsis potteri (Blackwall, 1846)
| FAMILY: AGELENIDAE C. L. Koch, 1837 Genus: Agelenopsis Giebel, 1869 Species: Agelenopsis potteri (Blackwall, 1846)  |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
funnel weavers
Genus Common Name:
grass spiders
Species Common Name:
none
Point Collections & Seasonality
Global Distribution: North America, introduced in Russia
Nearctic States & Provinces: 
BC ON SK CO CT MN NH WY
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Natural History & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:† sheet web builders
†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. PDF
Habitat (published): (not yet published or unknown)
Habitat (<30 randomly chosen specimens): In ofice, RSM. Ovip.-26.ix.2002; Urban yard. Web beside house; RSM basement; Wall of house. Urban yard; Indoors; In water barrel; Found dead; In urban basement; In house; Urban yard; In brick pile. Urban yard; Found dead in City Hospital;
Life & Natural History: (not yet recorded or unknown)
Image(s) of Habitus: 
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Details About Males
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Details About Females
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Taxonomic References‡
Bennett, R. G. 1992. The spermathecal pores of spiders with special reference to dictynoids and amaurobioids (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Araneoclada). Proc. ent. Soc. Ontario 123: 1-21.
Blackwall, J. 1846. Notice of spiders captured by Professor Potter in Canada, with descriptions of such species as appear to be new to science. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 17: 30-44, 76-82.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1941. North American Agelenidae of the genera Agelenopsis, Calilena, Ritalena and Tortolena. Ann. ent. Soc. Am. 34: 585-628.
Comstock, J. H. 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, xi + 727 pp.
Exline, H. 1938. The Araneida of Washington: Agelenidae and Hahniidae. Univ. Wash. Publ. Biol. 9(1): 1-44.
Giebel, C. G. 1869. Über einige Spinnen aus Illinois. Zeitschr. gesam. Naturw. 33: 248-253.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Lehtinen, P. T. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Ann. Zool. Fenn. 4: 199-468.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Roth, V. D. 1994. Spider Genera of North America, with Keys to Families and Genera, and a Guide to Literature, third edition. Am. Arachnol. Soc., Gainesville, 203 pp.
Roth, V. D. 1985. Spider genera of North America. American Arachnological Society, Gainesville, Florida.
Roth, V. D. 1982. Handbook for spider identification. Published by the author, Portal, Arizona.
Roth, V. D. & P. L. Brame. 1972. Nearctic genera of the spider family Agelenidae (Arachnida, Araneida). Am. Mus. Novit. 2505: 1-52. 
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog
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