Allagelena gracilens (C. L. Koch, 1841)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020847

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Described:

Distribution: Europe to Central Asia


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Taxonomic References
Agelena gracilens C. L. Koch, 1841a: 59, f. 635 (Dmf) Original description
Agelena similis Keyserling, 1863: 374, pl. 10, f. 2-3 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064649]
Agelena gracilis Simon, 1864: 212 (lapsus)
Agalena brunea Menge, 1871: 285, pl. 52, f. 165 (lapsus, mf; misidentified per Bonnet, 1955: 188)
Agelena similis Menge, 1871: 282, pl. 51, f. 164 (mf)
Agelena similis Simon, 1875a: 113, pl. 6, f. 11 (mf)
Agelena similis Becker, 1896: 207, pl. 13, f. 13 (mf)
Agelena similis Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1897: 174, pl. 7, f. 7 (mf)
Agelena similis Bösenberg, 1902: 226, pl. 20, f. 319 (mf)
Agalena similis Szombathy, 1915b: 256, pl. 5, f. 1; pl. 6, f. 6 (m)
Agelena similis Osterloh, 1922: 344, f. 8-11, 25, 35-38 (mf)
Agalena similis Spassky, 1925: 29, f. 19 (m)
Agelena similis Dahl, 1931: 15, f. 21-23 (mf)
Agelena gracilens Simon, 1937: 1012, 1042, f. 1568-1569 (mf, S of Agelena similis)
Agelena mengeella Strand, 1942: 394 (new name for Agelena brunea sensu Menge) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020869]
Agelena similis Drensky, 1942: 53, f. 14c-d (mf)
Agelena gracilens Lehtinen, 1967: 209 (S of Agelena syriaca, rejected by Brignoli, 1978g: 502, see Agelena orientalis)
Agelena gracilens Loksa, 1969: 94, f. 64A-C (mf)
Agelena gracilens Miller, 1971: 174, pl. XXVIII, f. 8-9 (mf)
Agelena gracilens de Blauwe, 1980b: 11, f. 15-19 (mf)
Agelena gracilens Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 356, f. 923 (mf)
Agelena gracilens Roberts, 1995: 242, f. (mf)
Agelena gracilens Efimik, Esyunin & Kuznetsov, 1997: 86, f. 7 (m)
Agelena gracilens Roberts, 1998: 259, f. (mf)
Allagelena gracilens Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2006c: 81, f. 23-28 (mf, T from Agelena)
Allagelena gracilens Breitling et al., 2015: 66 (S of Agelena mengeella)
Allagelena gracilens Geci et al., 2025a: 271, f. 2A-F (mf)
References

Becker, L. (1896). Les arachnides de Belgique, deuxième et troisième parties. Annales du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 12(2): 1-127, pl. 1-25 & 12(3): 1-378, pl. 1-18. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.48721 -- 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

Bösenberg, W. (1902). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(2-4): 97-384, pl. 9-36. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.6508 -- Show included taxa

Breitling, R., Lemke, M., Bauer, T., Hohner, M., Grabolle, A. & Blick, T. (2015). Phantom spiders: notes on dubious spider species from Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 65-80. doi: 10.5431/aramit5010 -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1897). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae Budapest, pp. 147-366, Pl. VI-X. -- Show included taxa

Dahl, M. (1931). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. 24. Familie. Agelenidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 23: 1-46. -- Show included taxa

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

Efimik, V. E., Esyunin, S. L. & Kuznetsov, S. F. (1997). Remarks on the Ural spider fauna, 7. New data on the fauna of the Orenburg area (Arachnida Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 6(1/2): 85-100. -- Show included taxa

Geci, D., Ibrahimi, H., Bilalli, A. & Musliu, M. (2025a). New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Western Balkans. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11(2): 269-289. doi: 10.61186/jibs.11.2.269 -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1863). Beschreibungen neuer Spinnen. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13: 369-382. -- 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

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- Show included taxa

Loksa, I. (1969). Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133. -- Show included taxa

Menge, A. (1871). Preussische Spinnen. IV. Abtheilung. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (N. F.) 2: 265-296. -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. -- Show included taxa

Osterloh, A. (1922). Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Kopulationsapparates einiger Spinnen. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 119: 326-421. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins London, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1864). Histoire naturelle des Araignées (Aranéides). Roret, Paris, 540 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.47654 [[there are two published versions of pp. 65-68, version 1 from BHL, version 2 from Munich library]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1875a). Les Arachnides de France. Tome seconde. Contenant les familles des Urocteidae, Agelenidae, Thomisidae et Sparassidae. Roret, Paris, 360 pp., pl. 4-8. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1937). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 5e et derniére partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 979-1298. -- Show included taxa

Spassky, S. A. (1925). [An identification book of spiders of Don area]. Znanie Press Novocherkassk, 62 pp. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1942). Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica. X. Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, Rigā 11: 386-402. -- Show included taxa

Szombathy, C. (1915b). Über Bau und Funktion der männlichen Kopulationsorgane bei Agalena und Mygale. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 13: 252-276, pl. 5-6. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, Z. S., Zhu, M. S. & Song, D. X. (2006c). A new genus of funnel-web spiders, with notes on relationships of the five genera from China (Araneae: Agelenidae). Oriental Insects 40: 77-89. doi: 10.1080/00305316.2006.10417458 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-03-25 New taxonomic reference entry Geci et al., 2025a
2018-06-05 New taxonomic reference entry Szombathy, 1915b
2015-10-20 New taxonomic reference entry Breitling et al., 2015
2015-10-20 Species synonymy Breitling et al., 2015 Allagelena mengeella synonymized with Allagelena gracilens

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