Agelenopsis potteri (Blackwall, 1846)
Description
Chelicerae with 3 teeth on retromargin. Sternum yellowish or brown, with dark V-shaped mark. Opisthosoma: dorsum with pattern, sides pale with dark spots, lateral area of venter pale, median area dark, set off by black lines.
Body length male: 7.3-12.7 mmBody length female: 6.7-16.0 mm
Additional information
This species of North American origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe at least once and did establish.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Chamberlin & Ivie 1941)
Tip of embolus
(Chamberlin & Ivie 1941)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Chamberlin & Ivie 1941)
Distribution List
References
Chamberlin R V, Ivie W (1941) North American Agelenidae of the genera Agelenopsis, Calilena, Ritalena and Tortolena. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 34: 585-628 
Fedoriak M, Rudenko S, Iaroshynska O, Zhukovets E (2012) Spiders (Araneae) of Chernivtsi City (Ukraine). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 43: 37-50
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Ponomarev A V, Dvadnenko K V (2013) Notes on the fauna of spiders (Aranei) of the southeast of Russian plain and the Caucasus with the description of a new species of the genus Haplodrassus Chamberlin, 1922 (Gnaphosidae). Vestnik Yuzhnogo Nauchnogo Tsentra 9: 47-56
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2