Eratigena

Eratigena
Eratigena atrica, the giant house spider
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Agelenidae
Genus: Eratigena
Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi, 2013[1]
Type species
Tegenaria atrica
C.L. Koch, 1843[1]
Species

See text.

Eratigena is a genus of spider in the Agelenidae family. Most of its species were moved from the genus Tegenaria in 2013. Two species that frequently build webs in and around human dwellings are now placed in this genus. Eratigena agrestis is the hobo spider, native to Europe and Central Asia, introduced to North America. Eratigena atrica is the giant house spider, native to Europe and also introduced into North America.

Taxonomy

Phylogeny

Species now placed in the genus Eratigena were previously placed in Tegenaria and Malthonica. In 2013, a study was carried out on European house spiders in the "Tegenaria-Malthonica complex". Using both morphological and molecular data, the study found four well-supported clades, one of which constituted a new genus Eratigena, comprising species formerly placed in Tegenaria and Malthonica.[2] The name Eratigena is an anagram of Tegenaria.[3] (Some Tegenaria species had previously been separated into the new genus Aterigena, another anagram of Tegenaria.[4])

Although the genera involved in the study were consistently found to be monophyletic, different analyses found different relationships among them.[2] Based on both morphological and DNA data, one hypothesis for the phylogeny of Eratigena and related genera is:[5]


Aterigena

Eratigena

Histopona

Malthonica

Tegenaria







Identification

Bolzern et al. (2013) provide a key to the European agelenid genera. Eratigena can be differentiated from Malthonica by the un-notched trochanters on legs III and IV (notched in Malthonica). The genus differs from Tegenaria in the number and size of the teeth on the rear margin of the chelicerae. Eratigena has six or more teeth, with those closer to the body of the spider being smaller. Tegenaria has three to six large teeth, more or less equal in size.[6]

Species

As of November 2015, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

  • Eratigena agrestis (Walckenaer, 1802) – Europe to Central Asia, introduced into USA and Canada (hobo spider)[7]
  • Eratigena arganoi (Brignoli, 1971) – Italy
  • Eratigena atrica (C. L. Koch, 1843) – Europe, introduced in North America (giant house spider)
  • Eratigena balearica (Brignoli, 1978) – Balearic Is.
  • Eratigena barrientosi (Bolzern, Crespo & Cardoso, 2009) – Portugal
  • Eratigena bucculenta (L. Koch, 1868) – Portugal, Spain
  • Eratigena feminea (Simon, 1870) – Portugal, Spain, Madeira, Algeria
  • Eratigena fuesslini (Pavesi, 1873) – Europe
  • Eratigena herculea (Fage, 1931) – Spain, Ibiza
  • Eratigena hispanica (Fage, 1931) – Spain
  • Eratigena incognita (Bolzern, Crespo & Cardoso, 2009) – Portugal
  • Eratigena inermis (Simon, 1870) – Portugal, Spain, France
  • Eratigena laksao Bolzern & Jäger, 2015 – Laos
  • Eratigena montigena (Simon, 1937) – Portugal, Spain
  • Eratigena picta (Simon, 1870) – Europe, Russia, North Africa
  • Eratigena sardoa (Brignoli, 1977) – Sardinia
  • Eratigena sicana (Brignoli, 1976) – Sicily, Sardinia
  • Eratigena vidua (Cárdenas & Barrientos, 2011) – Spain
  • Eratigena vomeroi (Brignoli, 1977) – Italy

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Eratigena Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi, 2013", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), retrieved 2015-11-17
  2. 1 2 Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi (2013), pp. 736–738
  3. ↑ Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi (2013), p. 738
  4. ↑ Bolzern, A.; Hänggi, A. & Burckhardt, D. (2010), "Aterigena, a new genus of funnel-web spiders, shedding some light on the Tegenaria-Malthonica problem (Araneae, Agelenidae)", Journal of Arachnology 38: 162–182, JSTOR 20788609
  5. ↑ Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi (2013), p. 753
  6. ↑ Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi (2013), p. 739
  7. ↑ Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi (2013), pp. 723

Bibliography

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