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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Funnel Weavers (Agelenidae) » Ageleninae » Grass Spiders (Agelenopsis)
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Funnel Web Spider? - Agelenopsis
Copyright © 2010 Gacko

Funnel Web Spider? - Agelenopsis
Desoto, Dallas County, Texas, USA
September 25, 2009
Found in the linen closet of a non-profit whose storage spaces I was organizing. I don't know if it had set up house-keeping there or had just come inside during the cooling weather. I don't know what to make of the spinerets--I don't see anything like them in other images.

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Contributed by Gacko on 1 March, 2010 - 12:54pm
Last updated 2 March, 2010 - 2:09am

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Moved from True Spiders.
… Gacko, 2 March, 2010 - 2:09am login or register to post comments

This is a female Agelenopsis sp.
They're commonly called Grass Spiders, but don't necessarily live in the grass. In general, as long as it's for sure an agelenid funnel weaver that you're looking at, those extra long spinnerets are pretty diagnostic for this particular genus. We'd have to see the genitalia to be able to take the ID further (usually). Here is the Agelenopsis info page.
… Mandy Howe, 2 March, 2010 - 1:55am login or register to post comments

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