Tegenaria duellica Simon, 1875
giant house spider
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FAMILY: AGELENIDAE C. L. Koch, 1837 Genus: Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 Species: Tegenaria duellica Simon, 1875  |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
funnel weavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
giant house spider
Distribution
Global Distribution: Holarctic
Nearctic States & Provinces: (from the Nearctic Spider Database) 
AB BC SK CO WA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected: (from the Nearctic Spider Database)
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Natural History, Phenology & 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
Recorded Habitats: (not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Details About Males
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Details About Females
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Taxonomic References‡
Agnarsson, I. 1996. Íslenskar köngulaer. Fjölrit Nàttùrufraedistofnunar 31: 1-175.
Brignoli, P. M. 1978. Quelques notes sur les Agelenidae, Hahniidae, Oxyopidae et Pisauridae de France et d'Espagne (Araneae). Revue suisse Zool. 85: 265-294.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1935. Miscellaneous new American spiders. Bull. Univ. Utah. 26(4): 1-79.
Crawford, R. & G. H. Locket. 1976. The occurrence of Tegenaria gigantea Chamberlin & Ivie (1935) in North America and western Europe. Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 3: 199.
Exline, H. 1938. The Araneida of Washington: Agelenidae and Hahniidae. Univ. Wash. Publ. Biol. 9(1): 1-44.
Exline, H. 1936. New and little known species of Tegenaria (Araneida: Agelenidae). Psyche 43: 21-26. 
Heimer, S. & W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp.
Locket, G. H. 1975. The identity of Blackwall's Tegenaria saeva (Araneae, Agelenidae). Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 3: 85-90.
Locket, G. H. & A. F. Millidge. 1953. British spiders. Ray Society, London, 2: 1-449.
Locket, G. H., A. F. Millidge & P. Merrett. 1974. British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp.
Merrett, P. 1980. Notes on the variation, identification and distribution of British species of the Tegenaria atrica group (Araneae, Agelenidae). Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 5: 1-8.
Roberts, M. J. 1998. Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.
Roberts, M. J. 1995. Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.
Roberts, M. J. 1985. The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England.
Roth, V. D. 1956. Taxonomic changes in the Agelenidae (Arachnida). Pan-Pacif. Ent. 32: 175-180.
Roth, V. D. 1952. A review of the genus Tegenaria in North America (Arachnida: Agelenidae). J. Washington Acad. Sci. 42: 283-288.
Simon, E. 1937. Les arachnides de France. Tome VI. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae; 5e et derniére partie. Paris, 6: 979-1298.
Simon, E. 1875. Les arachnides de France. Paris, 2: 1-350.
Terhivuo, J. 1993. Novelties to the Finnish spider fauna (Araneae) and notes on species having bitten man. Memo. Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 69: 53-56.
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog
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