AGELENIDAE C. L. KOCH, 1837

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 (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 168 (4), pp. 723-848 : 738

FAMILY AGELENIDAE C. L. KOCH, 1837

‘Agelenides’ C. L. Koch, 1837: 13. Diagnosis: ‘Small to medium sized araneomorph spiders; three tarsal claws; ecribellate; entelegyne; eight eyes; posterior spinnerets two-segmented, long and slender, with apical segment tapering towards tip; tarsi with trichobothria increasing in length towards tip; colulus paired’. (Jocqué & Dippenaar- Schoeman, 2006: 60).

All agelenids build a kind of sheet web with a special tube- or funnel-shaped retreat. Their webs are attached to various substrates (vegetation, rocks, caves, buildings).

Recently, the Coelotinae and the cribellate genus Tamgrinia Lehtinen, 1967 , were placed into Agelenidae ( Miller et al., 2010) . Therefore, the family diagnosis provided by Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman (2006) should be adjusted. In this work, we focus on members of the subfamily Ageleninae and exclude Coelotinae .

In the following we list the European species of Eratigena gen. nov., Malthonica , and Tegenaria in alphabetical order. For each taxon, taxonomically and nomenclaturally relevant references are provided. Bonnet (1959), van Helsdingen (2011), and Platnick (2012) provide details of species distribution. Details of the examined type material are listed in the following order: country: state/region/canton: commune, locality, number of specimens (comments, collection code, voucher number), collecting date, collector(s). Details for additional nontype material examined are listed in Appendix S1.