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]

Aterigena
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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)
Species

5, see text

Species

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As of April 2019 it contains five species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Aterigena Bolzern, Hänggi & Burckhardt, 2010". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  2. ^ 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.