Subfamily Ageleninae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Remarks · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Agelenidae (Funnel-Web Spiders)

Subfamily Ageleninae

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

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Numbers

Agelenopsis - 13 species(1)

Calilena - 16 species(1)

Hololena - 30 species(1)

Melpomene - 1 species(1)

Novalena - 5 species(1)

Rualena - 9 species(1)

Tortolena - 1 species(1)

Remarks

This page contains unidentified images of the primarily Western genera listed above.

While Barronopsis and Tegenaria are also included in this subfamily, Barronopsis is primarily Eastern in distribution, and Tegenaria can generally be distinguished by image alone. Agelenopsis is widespread.

Works Cited

1.	Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual By D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing and V. Roth (eds)

Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 18 December, 2006 - 9:49pm

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