World Spider Catalog Archive Version 26, generated on 2026-02-02

Agelenidae C. L. Koch, 1837

Family |   ACCEPTED

N.B.: Miller et al., 2010: 801 rejected the placement of Coelotes and allied genera by Wunderlich, 1986: 24 as being more closely related to Amaurobius (family Amaurobiidae) than to Agelena; Coelotinae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893: 158 were treated as a separate family Coelotidae by Ono, 2008: 163, but this was not accepted by later authors and Platnick; Cryphoeca and Tuberta were transferred from the Agelenidae to the Hahniidae by Lehtinen, 1967: 225, 272 and to the Cybaeidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 606; Blabomma, Chorizomma, Cicurina and Mastigusa were transferred from the Agelenidae to the Dictynidae by Lehtinen, 1967; Chorizomma, Cicurina and Mastigusa were transferred to the Hahniidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 607; Blabomma was transferred to the Cybaeidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 606 as well as Mastigusa by Castellucci, Scharff & Luchetti, 2023: 6; Chorizomma and Cicurina were transferred to the Cicurinidae by Gorneau et al., 2023: 11.

Gen. Nuconarius Zhao & S. Q. Li, 2018 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04466
type Nuconarius brevipatellatus Zhao & S. Li, 2018; gender masculine
Nuconarius brevipatellatus Zhao & S. Q. Li, 2018 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050471 TYPE SPECIES
Draconarius capitulatus Wang, Griswold & Miller, 2010: 24, f. 46-47, 54-56, 59-61 (m, misidentified per Li et al., 2018c: 239)
Draconarius capitulatus Zhu, Wang & Zhang, 2017: 242, f. 126C-D (m, misidentified per Li et al., 2018c: 239)
Nuconarius brevipatellatus Zhao & S. Q. Li in Li et al., 2018c: 239, f. 1A-C, 2A-E (Dmf) Original description
Nuconarius capitulatus (Wang, 2003) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038759
Draconarius capitulatus Wang, 2003: 524, f. 18A-B (Df) Original description
Draconarius capitulatus Wang, Griswold & Miller, 2010: 24, f. 44-45, 48-53, 57-58 (f, m misidentified per Li et al., 2018c: 239, see Nuconarius brevipatellatus)
Draconarius capitulatus Zhu, Wang & Zhang, 2017: 242, f. 126A-B (f, m misidentified per Li et al., 2018c: 239, see Nuconarius brevipatellatus).
Nuconarius capitulatus Li et al., 2018c: 242, f. 3A-C, 4A-E (Dm, f, T from Draconarius)
Nuconarius pseudocapitulatus (Wang, 2003) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038775
Draconarius pseudocapitulatus Wang, 2003: 545, f. 53A-B (Df) Original description
Draconarius pseudocapitulatus Wang, Griswold & Miller, 2010: 89, f. 407-427 (f, Dm)
Draconarius pseudocapitulatus Zhu, Wang & Zhang, 2017: 352, f. 219A-D (mf)
Nuconarius pseudocapitulatus Li et al., 2018c: 244, f. 5A-C, 6A-E (mf, T from Draconarius)

Sponsors