Aterigena is a genus of funnel weavers first described by A. Bolzern, A. Hänggi & D. Burckhardt in 2010.[2] The name is an anagram of Tegenaria.[2] It was created in 2010 for a group of Tegenaria and Malthonica species that formed a clade in a phylogenetic analysis. The genus was later found to be monophyletic, further separating Eratigena from Tegenaria and Malthonica.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Agelenidae |
| Genus: | Aterigena Bolzern, Hänggi & Burckhardt, 2010[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. ligurica (Simon, 1916)
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5, see text | |
Species
editAs of December 2024[update] it contains five species:[1]
- Aterigena aculeata (Wang, 1992) – China
- Aterigena aliquoi (Brignoli, 1971) – Italy (Sicily)
- Aterigena aspromontensis Bolzern, Hänggi & Burckhardt, 2010 – Italy
- Aterigena ligurica (Simon, 1916) (type) – France, Italy
- Aterigena soriculata (Simon, 1873) – France (Corsica), Italy (Sardinia)
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Aterigena Bolzern, Hänggi & Burckhardt, 2010". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
- ^ a b c Bolzern, A.; Hänggi, A.; Burckhardt, D. (2010). "Aterigena, a new genus of funnel-web spider, shedding some light on the Tegenaria-Malthonica problem (Araneae: Agelenidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 38 (2): 162–182. doi:10.1636/A09-78.1. S2CID 83969637.