Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Agelescape  Levy, 1996   2 species

Agelescape affinis (Kulczyński, 1911)

Description
Male

Pedipalp as A. livida.

Female

Prosoma length: 3.0 mm, prosoma width: 2.4 mm. Prosoma brown, marbled with longitudinal bands, prosomal margin darker. Legs grey-yellow, femora with 3 greyish annulations.

Body length female: 8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Syria, Israel, Lebanon?
Figures
Distribution List
Azerbaijan  Removed (Zamani & Marusik, 2020a; Nuruyeva & Zamani, 2025) ||| Turkey (Asia)  Removed (Danışman et al., 2025a; Zamani & Marusik, 2020a; Roewer, 1959a) |||
References

Blauwe R de (1980b) Revision de la famille des Agelenidae (Araneae) habitant la région Mediterranéenne (3e partie). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 52(11): 1-28 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

Levy G (1996) The agelenid funnel-weaver family and the spider genus Cedicus in Israel (Araneae, Agelenidae and Cybaeidae). Zoologica Scripta 25: 85-122 pdf

Nuruyeva T, Zamani A (2025) An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa 5680: 1-168 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Roewer C F (1959a) Die Araneae, Solifuga und Opiliones der Sammlungen des Herrn Dr. K. Lindberg aus Griechenland, Creta, Anatolien, Iran und Indien. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 8(4): 1-47 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

Zamani A, Marusik Y M (2020a) A review of Agelenini (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) of Iran and Tajikistan, with descriptions of four new genera. Arachnology 18: 368-386 pdf

Updates
18-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
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24-03-2020 Distribution update Detail
09-04-2013 Datasheet update Detail
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