Tegenaria

Tegenaria
Male Hobo spider
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Agelenidae
Genus:	Tegenaria
Species
T. agrestis T. atrica T. domestica T. duellica (= gigantea) T. ferruginea T. parietina T. saeva T. silvestris  many others
Diversity
102 species

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 (⅝, ¾ and ⅞ 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.^{[citation needed]}

References

• Bolzern, A. & Hänggi, A. (2006). Phylogeny of Tegenaria (Araneae, Agelenidae), with special focus on the human-biting Tegenaria agrestis-complex: a revision using morphological and molecular data. PDF

Gallery

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  Female Hobo Spider