Eratigena duellica
| Eratigena duellica | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Agelenidae |
| Genus: | Eratigena |
| Species: | E. duellica |
| Binomial name | |
| Eratigena duellica (Simon, 1875) | |
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Eratigena duellica, the giant house spider, is a species of funnel weaver in the spider family Agelenidae. Originally from Europe, it is also found in British Columbia, Canada, as well as Washington and Oregon in the United States.[1][2][3] The related species E. atrica and E. saeva are also called giant house spiders.
Eratigena atrica broad sense was transferred from the genus Tegenaria in 2013. This spider was considered the same species as Eratigena atrica until 2018, when E. duellica, E. saeva, and E. atrica were restored as separate species based on small but consistent differences in morphology.[4][5]
References
- 1 2 "World Spider Catalog, Eratigena duellica". Retrieved 2026-07-25.
- ↑ Vetter RS; Roe AH; Bennett RG; Baird CR; Royce LA; Lanier WT; Antonelli AL; Cushing PE (March 2003). "Distribution of the medically-implicated hobo spider (Araneae: Agelenidae) and a benign congener, Tegenaria duellica, in the United States and Canada". J Med Entomol. 40 (2): 159–164. doi:10.1603/0022-2585-40.2.159. PMID 12693843.
- ↑ "Eratigena duellica species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
- ↑ 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. 168 (4): 723–848. doi:10.1111/zoj.12040.
- ↑ Oxford, Geoff S; Bolzern, Angelo (2018). "Molecules v. Morphology—is Eratigena atrica (Araneae: Agelenidae) One Species or Three?". Arachnology. 17 (7): 337–357. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.7.337. S2CID 90843479.