Allagelena opulenta

Allagelena opulenta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Agelenidae
Genus: Allagelena
Species: A. opulenta
Binomial name
Allagelena opulenta
(L. Koch, 1878)[1]

Allagelena opulenta is a species of funnel weaver spider belonging to the Agelenidae family. The species was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1878.[1][2]

A. opulenta is native to Japan, China and Korea. It is similar in appearance to A. bistriata but can be distinguished by a number of features including the structure of its kneecap and the shape of its retrolateral tibial apophysis.[3]

Its venom is used to make the insecticidal toxin Agelenin.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Taxon details Allagelena opulenta (L. Koch, 1878)", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), retrieved 2015-11-18
  2. Koch, L. (1878). "Japanesische Arachniden und Myriapoden". Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 27: 735–798.
  3. Zhang, Zhisheng; Zhu, Ming-Sheng; Song, Da-Xiang (2006). "A new genus of funnel-web spiders, with notes on relationships of the five genera from China (Araneae: Agelenidae)". Oriental Insects 40: 77–89. doi:10.1080/00305316.2006.10417458.
  4. Institute for Molecular Bioscience. (2010) “U2-agatoxin-Ao1a”, Arachnoserver. Accessed on: 11 October 2015.

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