Nearctic States & Provinces: BC CO ID MT UT WA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/21188
Tegenaria agrestis (Walckenaer, 1802)
hobo spider
FAMILY: AGELENIDAE C. L. Koch, 1837
Genus: Tegenaria Latreille, 1804
Species: Tegenaria agrestis (Walckenaer, 1802)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
funnel weavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
hobo spider
Distribution
Global Distribution: Europe to Central Asia, USA, Canada
Nearctic States & Provinces:
BC CO ID MT UT WA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
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.
Recorded Habitats:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
Credit: Nieuwenhuys, Ed
Credit: Matz, Kerry
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Aranea agrestis Walckenaer 1802 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Walckenaer 1802 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Walckenaer 1842 |
| Philoica agrestis Karsch 1873 |
| Tegenaria rhaetica Thorell 1875 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Kulczynski 1887 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Müller & Schenkel 1895 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Becker 1896 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Dahl 1931 |
| Tegenaria magnacava Exline 1936 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Simon 1937 |
| Tegenaria magnacava Exline 1938 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Drensky 1942 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Hull 1950 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Exline 1951 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Locket & Millidge 1953 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Roth 1968 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Loksa 1969 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Brignoli 1971 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Miller 1971 |
| Tegenaria rhaetica Brignoli 1971 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Roberts 1985 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Thaler 1987 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Grothendieck & Kraus 1994 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Roberts 1995 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Mcheidze 1997 |
| Tegenaria agrestis Roberts 1998 |
Taxonomic References†
Becker, L. 1896. Les arachnides de Belgique. Ann. Mus. Roy. Hist. nat. Belg. 12: 1-3788.
Brignoli, P. M. 1971. Contributo alla conoscenza degli Agelenidae italiani (Araneae). Fragm. ent. 8: 57-142.
Dahl, M. 1931. Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. Agelenidae. In Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. Jena, 24: 1-46.
Drensky, P. 1942. Die Spinnenfauna Bulgariens V. Mitt. kgl. Naturw. Inst. Sofia 15: 33-60.
Exline, H. 1951. Tegenaria agrestis (Walck.), a European spider introduced into Washington State. Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 44: 308-310.
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.
Grothendieck, K. & O. Kraus. 1994. Die Wasserspinne Argyroneta aquatica: Verwandtschaft und Spezialisation (Arachnida, Araneae, Agelenidae). Verh. naturwiss. Ver. Hamburg (N.F.) 34: 259-273.
Heimer, S. & W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp.
Hull, J. E. 1950. Concerning British spiders: mostly taken in 1949. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (12) 3: 420-427.
Karsch, F. 1873. Verzeichniss westfälischer Spinnen (Araneiden). Verh. naturh. Ver. preuss. Rhein. Westfäl. 10: 113-160.
Kulczynski, W. 1887. Przyczynek do tyrolskiej fauny pajeczakow. Rozprav. spraw. wydz. mat. przyrod. Akad. umiej. Krakowie 16: 245-356 (+ Anhang, pp. 1-12).
Locket, G. H. & A. F. Millidge. 1953. British spiders. Ray Society, London, 2: 1-449.
Loksa, I. 1969. Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133.
Mcheidze, T. S. 1997. [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi Univ., 390 pp. (in Georgian).
Miller, F. 1971. Pavouci-Araneida. Klíc zvíreny CSSR 4: 51-306.
Müller, F. & E. Schenkel. 1895. Verzeichnis der Spinnen von Basel und Umgebegend. Verh. naturf. Ges. Basel 10: 691-824.
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. 1968. The spider genus Tegenaria in the Western Hemisphere (Agelenidae). Am. Mus. Novit. 2323: 1-33.
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.
Thaler, K. 1987. Drei bemerkenswerte Grossspinnen der Ostalpen (Arachnida, Aranei: Agelenidae, Thomisidae, Salticidae). Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges. 60: 391-401.
Thorell, T. 1875. Diagnoses Aranearum Europaearum aliquot novarum. Tijdschr. Ent. 18: 81-108.
Thorell, T. 1875. Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongl. Svenska. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 13(5): 1-203.
Walckenaer, C. A. 1842. Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Paris, 2: 1-549.
Walckenaer, C. A. 1802. Faune parisienne. Insectes. ou Histoire abrégée des insectes de environs de Paris. Paris 2: 187-250.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/AGELENIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Tegenaria Latreille, 1804‡‡
T. atrica C. L. Koch, 1843 ...............Europe, introduced in North America
T. chiricahuae Roth, 1968 ...............USA
T. domestica (Clerck, 1757) ...............Cosmopolitan
T. duellica Simon, 1875 ...............Holarctic
T. saeva Blackwall, 1844 ...............Western Europe, Canada
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution