Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Tegenaria  Latreille, 1804   110 species

Tegenaria hasperi Chyzer, 1897

Description
Male

Margin of prosoma with 3 dark, narrow crescent-shaped spots, sometimes fused, with 2 dark symmetric longitudinal bands. Legs annulated. Opisthosoma dark brownish, anterior part with 3 yellowish bands, laterally with 1 or 2 pairs of white spots, continuing as chevrons posteriad.

Female

Median plate of epigyne distinct, rectangular. Colouration as in males.

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France to Turkey, Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Georgia. Introduced to Britain
Phenology
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Distribution List
Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2025b) ||| Greece   (Schröder et al., 2011) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025; Dentici, 2019) ||| Kosovo   (Geci et al., 2025a) ||| North Macedonia   (Deltshev et al., 2013) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Grbić et al., 2021) ||| Slovakia   (Purgat et al., 2021a) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi et al., 2014) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (Demircan & Topçu, 2016) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019; Bennett-West, 2023) |||
References

Bennett-West A (2023) Tegenaria hasperi – a new British record. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 156/SRS News 105: 11-12 pdf

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Brignoli P M (1971g) Contributo alla conoscenza degli Agelenidae Italiani (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 8: 57-142 pdf

Chyzer C, Kulczyński W (1897) Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, pp. 147-366, pl. 6-10. pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Deltshev C (1993) The genus Tegenaria Latreille in Bulgaria: a critical review with descriptions of two sibling species (Arachnida, Araneae: Agelenidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 80: 167-174 pdf

Deltshev C, Komnenov M, Blagoev G, Georgiev T, Lazarov S, Stojkoska E, Naumova M (2013) Faunistic diversity of spiders (Araneae) in Galichitsa Mountain (FYR Macedonia). Biodiversity Data Journal 1(e977): 1-70 pdf

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

Demircan N, Topçu A (2016) First records for spider fauna of the European part of Turkey (Araneae). Serket 15: 85-91 pdf

Dentici A (2019) Third contribution to the knowledge of Sicilian spider fauna (Arachnida Araneae). Biodiversity Journal 10: 117-120 pdf

Gaymard M, Lecigne S (2018) Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) du Gard et en particulier du massif des Gorges du Gardon (Occitanie, France). Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 1: 1-39 pdf

Geci, D., Ibrahimi, H., Bilalli, A. & Musliu, M (2025a) New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Western Balkans. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11: 269-289 pdf

Grbić G, Hänggi A, Krnjajić S (2021) Spiders (Araneae) of Subotica Sandland (Serbia): additional arguments in environmental protection. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67: 15-61 pdf

Hänggi A, Stäubli A, Heer X, Trivellone V, Pollini Paltrinieri L, Moretti M (2014) Eleven new spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) for Switzerland discovered in vineyards in Ticino - What are possible reasons? Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 87: 215-228 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Kovács G, Szinetár C (2012) Adatok az ezüstös zugpók (Malthonica nemorosa [Simon, 1916]) biológiájához (Araneae, Agelenidae) [Data on the biology of Malthonica nemorosa (Simon, 1916) (Araneae, Agelenidae)]. A Nyme Savaria Egyetemi Központ Tudományos Közleményei XIX. Természettudományok 14: 151-164 pdf

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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

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. pdf

Ponomarev A V, Mikhailov K G, Shmatko V Y (2024a) Review of spiders of the genus Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Aranei: Agelenidae) of Ciscaucasia and the Russian Caucasus. III. New data on fauna and distribution, with material from neighbouring regions. Arthropoda Selecta 33: 273-287 pdf

Ponomarev A V, Shmatko V Y (2023a) Review of the spider genus Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Aranei: Agelenidae) of the Russian Caucasus and Ciscaucasia. II. A new species and an interesting record. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 19: 97-99 pdf

Ponomarev A V, Shokhin I V, Terskov E N, Shmatko V Y (2018b) Preliminary data on the fauna of spiders (Aranei) of Taman Peninsula and Tuzla Island (Russia). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 14: 121-129 pdf

Purgat P, Ondrejková N, Krumpálova Z, Gajdoš P, Hurajtová N (2021a) Tegenaria hasperi Chyzer, 1897 and Zoropsis spinimana (Dufour, 1820), newly recorded synanthropic spiders from Slovakia (Araneae, Agelenidae, Zoropsidae). Check List 17: 775-782 pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Schröder M, Chatzaki M, Buchholz S (2011) The spider fauna of the Aladjagiola wetland complex (Nestos Delta, north-east Greece): a reflection of a unique zoogeographical transition zone in Europe. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 102: 217-233 pdf

Seropian A, Ninua L, Rostiashvili I, Bulbulashvili N, Makharadze G (2025b) New data on spiders (Arthropoda, Arachnida, Araneae) of Georgia with description of a new species from Tegenaria lyncea group. Caucasiana 4: 65-80 pdf

Szinetár C, Vajda Z (1992) [The occurrence of a rare South European spider species, Tegenaria nemorosa Simon, 1916, in Hungary (Araneidea)]. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 53: 257-258 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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