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 | |
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| Tegenaria silvestris spiders inside their web. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Agelenidae |
| Genus: | Tegenaria |
| Species: | T. silvestris
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| Binomial name | |
| Tegenaria silvestris L. Koch, 1872[1]
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It was transferred to the genus Malthonica in 2005, but back to Tegenaria in 2013.[1][2]
References
edit- ^ a b "Taxon details Tegenaria silvestris L. Koch, 1872", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2015-11-17
- ^ 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