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Genus: Agelena Walckenaer, 1805 | Family: Agelenidae C. L. Koch, 1837

Agelena orientalis C. L. Koch, 1837

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020879

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Described:

Distribution: Spain to Central Asia, Middle East, Iran

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Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Agelena syriaca C. L. Koch, 1843, (2226) -

Taxonomic References

Agelena orientalis C. L. Koch, 1837b: 14 (D) Original description

Agelena orientalis C. L. Koch, 1841a: 58, f. 634 (Dm)

Agelena syriaca C. L. Koch, 1843: 110, f. 827 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056238]

Agelena taurica Thorell, 1875b: 75 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056237]

Agelena gracilens taurica Thorell, 1875c: 81 (Dmf)

Agelena taurica Spassky & Shnitnikov, 1937: 288, f. 9 (f)

Agelena labyrinthica orientalis Drensky, 1942: 52

Agelena similis taurica Drensky, 1942: 53, 60

Agelena orientalis Brignoli, 1976b: 563, f. 43 (Df, elevated from subspecies)

Agelena orientalis Brignoli, 1978g: 502 (S of Agelena gracilens taurica and A. syriaca [removed from S of A. gracilens, rejecting Lehtinen, 1967: 209])

Agelena labyrinthica orientalis de Blauwe, 1980b: 16, f. 26-29 (mf)

Agelena orientalis Levy, 1996: 86, f. 4-8 (mf)

Agelena orientalis Kovblyuk & Kastrygina, 2011: 274, f. 1-3, 7-9, 13-15, 19-20, 23-24, 27 (mf)

Agelena orientalis Moscaliuc, 2013: 138, f. 2A-B (f)

Agelena orientalis Kovblyuk, 2014: 46, f. 26 (mf)

Agelena orientalis Zamani, 2016b: 27, unnumbered f. (f)

Agelena orientalis Al-Khazali et al., 2021: 204, f. 2A-C (f)

Agelena orientalis Martín et al., 2025: 143, f. 1, 2A-B (f)

References

Al-Khazali, A. M., Hussen, F. S., Kachel, H. S., Ismail, N. K. & Ahmed, A. I. (2021). Three new and two confirmed records for the Iraqi spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae). Commagene Journal of Biology 5(2): 204-207. doi: 10.31594/commagene.1022862 -- Show included taxa

Blauwe, R. de (1980b). Revision de la famille des Agelenidae (Araneae) habitant la region mediterraneene (3e partie). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 52(11): 1-28. -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1976b). Ragni di Grecia IX. Specie nuove o interessanti delle famiglie Leptonetidae, Dysderidae, Pholcidae ed Agelenidae (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 83(3): 539-578. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.91452 -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1978g). Ragni di Turchia V. Specie nuove o interessanti, cavernicole ed epigee, di varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 85(3): 461-541. doi: 10.1002/mmnz.19710470203 -- Show included taxa

Drensky, P. (1942). Die Spinnenfauna Bulgariens V. Mitteilungen aus den Königlichen Naturwissenschaftlichen Instituten in Sofia 15: 33-60. -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1837b). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Heft 1. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, 39 pp., pl. 1-6. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.39561 [[for the detailled publishing date see Nagel & Grieder, 2019: 47]] -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1841a). Die Arachniden. Achter Band. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, pp. 41-131, pl. 265-288 (f. 621-694). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1843). Die Arachniden. Zehnter Band. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, pp. 37-142, pl. 337-360 (f. 777-849). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Kovblyuk, M. M. & Kastrygina, Z. A. (2011). On two closely related funnel-web spider species, Agelena orientalis C.L. Koch, 1837, and A. labyrinthica (Clerck, 1757) (Aranei: Agelenidae). Arthropoda Selecta 20(4): 273-282. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.20.4.04 -- Show included taxa

Kovblyuk, M. M. (2014). Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Crimea: faunogenesis and hypothesis of Pontida. Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka 5(2): 29-53. -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1996). The agelenid funnel-weaver family and the spider genus Cedicus in Israel (Araneae, Agelenidae and Cybaeidae). Zoologica Scripta 25(2): 85-122. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1996.tb00154.x -- Show included taxa

Martín, D. F., Adame, F. R., Melendo, M. M. & Castilla, G. R. (2025). Nuevas adiciones a la fauna araneológica de Andalucía. I. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 47: 143-150. -- Show included taxa

Moscaliuc, L. A. (2013). Contributions to the knowledge of Romanian spider fauna. Steps towards an updated checklist. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 56(2): 135-142. doi: 10.2478/travmu-2013-0010 -- Show included taxa

Spassky, S. A. & Shnitnikov, V. N. (1937). Materialy a faune paukov Kazakhstana. Akademii Naouk Soiouza Trudy Kazachstanskogo Filiala 2: 265-300. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875b). Verzeichniss südrussischer Spinnen. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 11: 39-122. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875c). Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 13(5): 1-204. -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A. (2016b). [The field guide of spiders and scorpions of Iran]. Iranshenasi Tehran, 360 pp. [[in Persian] [only relevant pages are included in the PDF]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2026-01-19	Species distribution update	Martín et al., 2025	Old value
2026-01-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Martín et al., 2025
2022-01-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Al-Khazali et al., 2021
2022-01-08	Species distribution update	Al-Khazali et al., 2021	Old value
2017-01-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani, 2016b
2015-02-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Kovblyuk, 2014
2014-06-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Moscaliuc, 2013