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. Gorbiscape Zamani & Marusik, 2020 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04587
type Gorbiscape gorbachevi Zamani & Marusik, 2020; gender feminine

In synonymy:

Gorbiscape angustifrons (Simon, 1870) = Gorbiscape agelenoides (Walckenaer, 1841) (Simon, 1875a: 115, sub Agelena)

Gorbiscape agelenoides (Walckenaer, 1841) | | Western Mediterranean urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020824
Dolomedes agelenoides Walckenaer, 1841: 454 (D) Original description
Dolomedes agelenoides Lucas, 1846: 131, pl. 4, f. 9
Agelena angustifrons Simon, 1870b: 288 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065984]
Agelena angustifrons Simon, 1873a: 169, pl. 1, f. 23 (m)
Agelena agelenoides Simon, 1875a: 115, pl. 6, f. 8-9 (mf, S of Agelena angustifrons)
Agelena agelenoides Simon, 1883: 290, pl. 8, f. 15 (f)
Agelena agelenoides Simon, 1937: 1012, 1042, f. 1564-1565 (mf)
Agelena agelenoides de Blauwe, 1980b: 5, f. 3-7 (mf)
Gorbiscape agelenoides Zamani & Marusik, 2020a: 382, f. 4E (m, T from Agelena)
Gorbiscape amazighus Zamani & Marusik, 2025 | | Morocco urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065979
Gorbiscape amazighus Zamani & Marusik, 2025: 322, f. 1A-B, 3A-E, 4A-C, 5A-C (Dmf) Original description
Gorbiscape canariensis (Lucas, 1838) | | Canary Is., Morocco, Algeria urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020832
Agelena canariensis Lucas, 1838: 37, pl. 6, f. 10 (Df) Original description
Nyssa canariensis Simon, 1864: 212
Agelena canariensis Simon, 1883: 290, pl. 8, f. 14 (f)
Agelena canariensis Denis, 1941a: 122, f. 9 (f)
Agelena canariensis Schmidt, 1973: 374, f. 8 (Dm)
Agelena canariensis de Blauwe, 1980b: 8, f. 10-14 (mf)
Agelena canariensis Wunderlich, 1992a: 432, f. 633-637 (mf)
Gorbiscape canariensis Zamani & Marusik, 2025: 322 (T from Agelena)
Gorbiscape gomerensis (Wunderlich, 1992) | | Canary Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020845
Agelena gomerensis Wunderlich, 1992a: 433, f. 638-644 (Dmf) Original description
Gorbiscape gomerensis Zamani & Marusik, 2025: 322 (T from Agelena)
Gorbiscape gonzalezi (Schmidt, 1980) | | Canary Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020846
Agelena gonzalezi Schmidt, 1980: 333, f. 2a-b (Df) Original description
Agelena gonzalezi Wunderlich, 1992a: 433, f. 645-648 (f)
Agelena gonzalezi Wunderlich, 2011: 397, f. 1-2 (Dm)
Gorbiscape gonzalezi Zamani & Marusik, 2025: 322 (T from Agelena)
Gorbiscape gorbachevi Zamani & Marusik, 2020 | | Tajikistan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051739 TYPE SPECIES
Gorbiscape gorbachevi Zamani & Marusik, 2020a: 380, f. 1E-F, 4D, 5C-D, 6F, 7A, 14A-D (Dmf) Original description
Gorbiscape tenerifensis (Wunderlich, 1992) | | Canary Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020893
Agelena tenerifensis Wunderlich, 1992a: 435, f. 649-653 (Dmf) Original description
Gorbiscape tenerifensis Zamani & Marusik, 2025: 322 (T from Agelena)
Gorbiscape zarafshanicus Fomichev & Shodmonov, 2024 | | Uzbekistan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063469
Gorbiscape zarafshanicus Fomichev & Shodmonov, 2024: 76, f. 1-11 (Dm) Original description

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