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Tegenaria

(Genus)

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House spiders of the genus Tegenaria are fast-running brownish funnel-web weavers that occupy much of the Northern Hemisphere except for Japan, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. Of all Agelenids, Tegenaria possesses the largest species of funnel weavers: the dust spider (T. atrica), the Cardinal spider (T. parietina) as well as the giant house spider (T. duellica) whose species' females reach 17, 18 and 20 mm (?, ? and ? in.) in body size respectively. Another genus member is the notorious hobo spider (Tegenaria agrestis), whose bites were purportedly toxic to humans, now known to have rather been caused by the brown recluse.[]

en caused by the brown recluse.[]

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Taxonomy

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The Genus Tegenaria is further organized into finer groupings including:

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Last Revised: August 24, 2012
2012/08/24 16:53:53