Talk:Tegenaria

Latest comment: 10 years ago by Wardog in topic Taxonomy

Taxonomy

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Tegenaria atrica has its own page. Tegenaria duellica redirects to Giant house spider, which claims to the same spider as T. atrica, but also reasignes it to the genus Eratigena (which doesn't have its own article). The change in classification is referenced to a paper that I can't read without subscription. Is this a generally accepted reclassification? In any case, the main Tegenaria article needs to either say that T. atrica and T. duellica have been reasigned to E. atrica, or that such a change has been proposed. (And their own articles updated or merged accordingly). Iapetus (talk) 12:41, 28 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Addendum: according to this site:
Tegenaria agrestis is now called Eratigena agrestis
Tegenaria duellica/gigantea, T. saeva, and T. atrica are all synonymized under E. atrica
Malthonica pagana moved back to Tegenaria Iapetus (talk) 12:53, 28 July 2014 (UTC)Reply