| Tegenaria silvestris | |
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| Tegenaria silvestris spiders inside their web. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Agelenidae |
| Genus: | Tegenaria |
| Species: | T. silvestris |
| Binomial name | |
| Tegenaria silvestris L. Koch, 1872 | |
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The rare spider species Tegenaria silvestris is mostly found in caves, or on dumps; sometimes it occurs on forest edges, or in dry forests. It constructs its web under tree trunks and dead wood, and in tree caves.
It was transferred to the genus Malthonica in 2005, but back to Tegenaria in 2013.
References
- ^ "Taxon details Tegenaria silvestris L. Koch, 1872", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2015-11-17
- Bolzern, Angelo; Burckhardt, Daniel & Hänggi, Ambros (2013), "Phylogeny and taxonomy of European funnel-web spiders of the Tegenaria−Malthonica complex (Araneae: Agelenidae) based upon morphological and molecular data", Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 168 (4): 723–848, doi:10.1111/zoj.12040
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Malthonica silvestris | |
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