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Immature Hololena - Hololena

Immature Hololena - Hololena
California State University, Stanislaus, Stanislaus County, California, USA
October 2, 2022
Size: ~9 mm
A common agelenid found on the university campus. Frequently found on shrubs, trees, low vegetation, and human-made structures. Identification provided by arachnologist Blaine Hebert who started working with this genus 30+ years ago.

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Further Reading
  • Chamberlin, Ralph V., and Wilton Ivie.“Agelenidae of the genera Hololena, Novalena, Rualena, and Melpomene.” Annals of the Entomological Society of America 35, no. 2 (May 31, 1942): 203-241. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/35.2.203.
  • ———. “North American agelenidae of the genera Agelenopsis, Calilena, Ritalena and Tortolena.” Annals of the Entomological Society of America 34, no. 3 (August 31, 1941): 585–628. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/34.3.585.
  • Gering, Robert L. “Structure and function of the genitalia in some American agelenid spiders.” Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 124, no. 4 (March 17, 1953). https://hdl.handle.net/10088/22880.
  • Maya-Morales, Julieta, and María-Luisa Jiménez. “Revision of the funnel-web spider genus Novalena (Araneae: Agelenidae).” Zootaxa 4262, no. 1 (May 4, 2017): 1-88. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4262.1.1.
  • ———. “Taxonomic revision of the spider genus Rualena Chamberlin & Ivie 1942 and description of Hoffmannilena, a new genus from Mexico (Araneae: Agelenidae).” Zootaxa 4084, no. 1 (February 24, 2016): 1-49. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4084.1.1.
  • Roth, Vincent D., and Paul Brame. “Nearctic genera of the spider family agelenidae (Arachnida, Araneida).” American Museum Novitates 2505 (1972): 1–52. https://hdl.handle.net/2246/2712.
  • Whitman-Zai, Julie, Maren Francis, Margaret Geick, and Paula E. Cushing. “Revision and morphological phylogenetic analysis of the funnel web spider genus Agelenopsis (Araneae: Agelenidae).” Journal of Arachnology 43, no. 1 (March 3, 2015): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1636/k14-35.1.

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