Tegenaria - Araneomorph Funnel-web Spider, Arachnid

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. House spiders of the genus Tegenaria are fast-running brownish funnel-web weavers that occupy much of the Northern Hemisphere except for Japan, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. Of all Agelenids, Tegenaria possesses the largest species of funnel weavers: the dust spider (T. atrica), the Cardinal spider (T. parietina) as well as the giant house spider (T. duellica) whose species' females reach 17, 18 and 20 mm ( , and in.) in body size respectively.