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Hausspinne Tegenaria atrica🕷️

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SpeciesAraneaeAgelenidae
Arthropods

🕷️Giant house spider

Eratigena atrica (C.L.Koch, 1843)

Великий домашній павук розглядається або як один вид під назвою Eratigena atrica, або як три види, E. atrica, E. duellica та E. saeva. Станом на квітень 2020 думка про три окремі види була прийнята Всесвітнім каталогом павуків. Вони є одними з найбільших павуків Центральної та Північної Європи. Раніше їх відносили до роду Tegenaria. У 2013 році їх перемістили до нового роду Eratigena як єдиний вид Eratigena atrica. У 2018 році було відновлено три окремі види. Укус цих видів не становить загрози для людей і домашніх тварин, і вони, як правило, неохоче кусаються, воліючи замість цього сховатися або втекти.

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Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Eratigena atrica yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
0 kg
Body length
0.01 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Giant house spider

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

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0 kgaverage
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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female.

By sex

  • Female0 kgWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Adhesive foot pads and prey capture behaviour; Wolff et al. 2019
Body length
0.01 mrecord 0.02 m · World Spider Trait Databasetypical adult
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Lyons et al 2025 trait data; Rayner, Vitkauskaite, Healy, Lyons, McShar

Record: largest individual on record

Source: World Spider Trait Database · Pekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064 · CC BY

By sex

  • Male0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Body size of European spiders from Spiders of Europe; Nentwig et al. 2018
  • Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Body size of European spiders from Spiders of Europe; Nentwig et al. 2018
  • Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Bolzern et al. 2013

Figures vary

  • 0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Lyons et al 2025 trait data; Rayner, Vitkauskaite, Healy, Lyons, McShar
Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Giant house spider yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classArachnida
  4. ›orderAraneae
  5. ›familyAgelenidae
  6. ›genusEratigena
  7. ›speciesEratigena atrica
Full lineage
  1. orderSpiders · Araneae
  2. suborderAraneomorphae
  3. familyAgelenidae
  4. genusEratigena
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumChelicerata
  4. orderSpiders · Araneae
  5. suborderAraneomorphae
  6. familyAgelenidae
  7. genusEratigena
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Große Winkelspinne (de), varastohämähäkki (fi), stor husedderkopp (nb), pokoutník tmavý (cs), Kątnik większy (pl), Tégénaire noire (fr) … and 9 more languages
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