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Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Eratigena  Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi, 2013   22 species

Eratigena duellica  (Simon, 1875)

Description

Conductor with ± straight tip. Prosoma yellowish-grey, with 2 broad, dark brown-black longitudinal stripes. Sternum grey-brown, with brighter median part and bright spots near coxa. Legs yellowish-grey. Opisthosoma grey-brown, dorsally with 2 longitudinal rows of yellow spots and slender, yellow median stripe.

Body length male: 10-14 mm
Body length female: 11-16 mm
Additional information

Under stones in warm locations, often in buildings

Frequency: Frequent

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Canada, USA, Europe
Phenology
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France   (no references) ||| Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Northern Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Portugal   (Cardoso & Morano, 2010) ||| Spain   (Cardoso & Morano, 2010) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Bolzern A, Burckhardt D, Hänggi A (2013b) 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 168: 723-848 pdf

Brignoli P M (1978e) Quelques notes sur les Agelenidae, Hahniidae, Oxyopidae et Pisauridae de France et d'Espagne (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 85: 265-294 pdf

Cardoso P, Morano E (2010) The Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 2495: 1-52 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Merrett P (1980) Notes on the variation, identification and distribution of British species of the Tegenaria atrica group (Araneae, Agelenidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5: 1-8 pdf

Oxford G (2023) The identification of members of the Eratigena atrica group of large house spiders – E. atrica, E. duellica and E. saeva (Agelenidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 156/SRS News 105: 1-4 pdf

Oxford G S, Bolzern A (2018) Molecules v. morphology — is Eratigena atrica (Araneae: Agelenidae) one species or three? Arachnology 17: 337-357 pdf

Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
30-03-2023 Image insert
17-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
15-03-2018 Datasheet update Detail