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Grass Funnel-web Spiders
Agelena
Agelena is a genus of agelenid spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1805. Sometimes referred to as Eurasian grass spiders, they trap their prey by weaving entangling non-sticky funnel webs. They are limited to the Old world, occurring from Africa to Japan.
40 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Labyrinth spider
speciesAgelena labyrinthica
Agelena silvatica
speciesAgelena silvatica
Agelena orientalis
speciesAgelena orientalis
Agelena limbata
speciesAgelena limbata
Agelena tungchis
speciesAgelena tungchis
Agelena consociata
speciesAgelena consociata
Gaerdes's Agelena Grass Funnel-web Spider
speciesAgelena gaerdesi
Agelena australis
speciesAgelena australis
Agelena choi
speciesAgelena choi
Agelena dubiosa
speciesAgelena dubiosa
Agelena hirsutissima
speciesAgelena hirsutissima
Agelena nigra
speciesAgelena nigra
Agelena lukla
speciesAgelena lukla
Agelena sherpa
speciesAgelena sherpa
Agelena suboculata
speciesAgelena suboculata
Agelena doris
speciesAgelena doris
Agelena gautami
speciesAgelena gautami
Agelena oaklandensis
speciesAgelena oaklandensis
Agelena shillongensis
speciesAgelena shillongensis
Agelena babai
speciesAgelena babai
Agelena tenuella
speciesAgelena tenuella
Agelena cuspidata
speciesAgelena cuspidata
Agelena poliosata
speciesAgelena poliosata
Agelena secsuensis
speciesAgelena secsuensis
Agelena annulipedella
speciesAgelena annulipedella
Agelena funerea
speciesAgelena funerea
Agelena lingua
speciesAgelena lingua
Agelena littoricola
speciesAgelena littoricola
Agelena maracandensis
speciesAgelena maracandensis
Agelena incertissima
speciesAgelena incertissima
Agelena howelli
speciesAgelena howelli
Agelena injuria
speciesAgelena injuria
Agelena inda
speciesAgelena inda
Agelena chayu
speciesAgelena chayu
Agelena republicana
speciesAgelena republicana
Agelena satmila
speciesAgelena satmila
Agelena atlantea
speciesAgelena atlantea
Agelena tenuis
speciesAgelena tenuis
Agelena jirisanensis
speciesAgelena jirisanensis
Agelena barunae
speciesAgelena barunae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 62090.