Tegenaria silvestris

(Redirected from Malthonica silvestris)

The rare spider species Tegenaria silvestris is mostly found in caves, or on dumps; sometimes it occurs on forest edges, or in dry forests. It constructs its web under tree trunks and dead wood, and in tree caves.[citation needed]

Tegenaria silvestris
Tegenaria silvestris spiders inside their web.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Agelenidae
Genus: Tegenaria
Species:
T. silvestris
Binomial name
Tegenaria silvestris
L. Koch, 1872[1]

It was transferred to the genus Malthonica in 2005, but back to Tegenaria in 2013.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Taxon details Tegenaria silvestris L. Koch, 1872", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2015-11-17
  2. ^ 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