Tegenaria silvestris

The rare spider species Tegenaria silvestris is mostly found in caves, or on dumps; sometimes it occurs on forest edges, or in dry forests. It constructs its web under tree trunks and dead wood, and in tree caves.

Tegenaria silvestris
Tegenaria silvestris spiders inside their web.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Agelenidae
Genus: Tegenaria
Species:
T. silvestris
Binomial name
Tegenaria silvestris
L. Koch, 1872[1]

It was transferred to the genus Malthonica in 2005, but back to Tegenaria in 2013.[1][2]

References

  1. "Taxon details Tegenaria silvestris L. Koch, 1872", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2015-11-17
  2. Bolzern, Angelo; Burckhardt, Daniel & Hänggi, Ambros (2013), "Phylogeny and taxonomy of European funnel-web spiders of the Tegenaria−Malthonica complex (Araneae: Agelenidae) based upon morphological and molecular data", Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 168 (4): 723–848, doi:10.1111/zoj.12040


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