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Agelenopsis

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Agelenopsis

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Also known as grass spider

Agelenopsis, commonly known as the American grass spiders, is a genus of funnel weavers described by C.G. Giebel in 1869. They weave sheet webs that have a funnel shelter on one edge. The web is not sticky, but these spiders make up for that by running very rapidly.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyAgelenidae
Observations recorded24,782

Agelenopsis is een geslacht van spinnen uit de familie van de Agelenidae (trechterspinnen).

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
98
With media
6
Family
Agelenidae
Collections
CHAS, MCZ, OMNH, NMMNHS, NMSU, UMNH
Recorded in
United States

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Encyclopedic overview

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Agelenopsis, commonly known as the American grass spiders, is a genus of funnel weavers described by C.G. Giebel in 1869. They weave sheet webs that have a funnel shelter on one edge. The web is not sticky, but these spiders make up for that by running very rapidly.

==Description==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agelenopsis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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