Nearctic States & Provinces: AB BC SK CO WA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/21222
Tegenaria duellica Simon, 1875
giant house spider
FAMILY: AGELENIDAE C. L. Koch, 1837
Genus: Tegenaria Latreille, 1804
Species: Tegenaria duellica Simon, 1875
Common Names
Family Common Name:
funnel weavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
giant house spider
Distribution
Global Distribution: Holarctic
Nearctic States & Provinces:
AB BC SK CO 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: Watson, Don
Credit: Hancock, John
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
Credit: Hancock, John
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Tegenaria duellica Simon 1875 |
| Tegenaria gigantea Chamberlin & Ivie 1935 |
| Tegenaria gigantea Exline 1936 |
| Tegenaria saeva Simon 1937 |
| Tegenaria gigantea Exline 1938 |
| Tegenaria gigantea Roth 1952 |
| Tegenaria atrica Locket & Millidge 1953 |
| Tegenaria atrica Roth 1956 |
| Tegenaria saeva Locket, Millidge & Merrett 1974 |
| Tegenaria propinqua Locket 1975 |
| Tegenaria gigantea Crawford & Locket 1976 |
| Tegenaria duellica Brignoli 1978 |
| Tegenaria gigantea Merrett 1980 |
| Tegenaria duellica Roberts 1985 |
| Tegenaria gigantea Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Tegenaria gigantea Terhivuo 1993 |
| Tegenaria duellica Roberts 1995 |
| Tegenaria duellica Agnarsson 1996 |
| Tegenaria duellica Roberts 1998 |
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 accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/AGELENIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Tegenaria Latreille, 1804‡‡
T. agrestis (Walckenaer, 1802) ...............Europe to Central Asia, USA, Canada
T. atrica C. L. Koch, 1843 ...............Europe, introduced in North America
T. chiricahuae Roth, 1968 ...............USA
T. domestica (Clerck, 1757) ...............Cosmopolitan
T. saeva Blackwall, 1844 ...............Western Europe, Canada
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution