Allagelena opulenta
| Allagelena opulenta | |
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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 2 "Taxon details Allagelena opulenta (L. Koch, 1878)", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), retrieved 2015-11-18
- ↑ Koch, L. (1878). "Japanesische Arachniden und Myriapoden". Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 27: 735–798.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Institute for Molecular Bioscience. (2010) “U2-agatoxin-Ao1a”, Arachnoserver. Accessed on: 11 October 2015.
External links
Data related to Allagelena opulenta at Wikispecies
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