Species of spider

Allagelena opulenta

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Agelenidae
Genus:  | Allagelena
Species:  |

A. opulenta

Binomial name
Allagelena opulenta

(L. Koch, 1878)[1]

Allagelena opulenta is a species of funnel weaver spider of the family Agelenidae. The species was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1878.[1][2]

A. opulenta is native to Japan, China, Korea,[3] and Taiwan.[4] It is similar in appearance to A. bistriata but can be distinguished by a number of features including the structure of its patella and the shape of its retrolateral tibial apophysis.[3]

Its venom is used to make the insecticidal toxin agelenin.[5]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "Taxon details Allagelena opulenta (L. Koch, 1878)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2015-11-18
2. ^ Koch, L. (1878). "Japanesische Arachniden und Myriapoden". Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 27: 735–798.
3. ^ a b Zhang, Zhisheng; Zhu, Ming-Sheng; Song, Da-Xiang (2006). "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.
4. ^ Chu, Yi (n.d.). K. T. Shao (ed.). "Allagelena opulenta L. Koch, 1878". Catalogue of life in Taiwan. Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
5. ^ Institute for Molecular Bioscience. (2010) “U2-agatoxin-Ao1a”, Arachnoserver. Accessed on: 11 October 2015.

## External links[edit]

* Data related to Allagelena opulenta at Wikispecies

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q1905781
* Wikispecies: Allagelena opulenta
* BioLib: 1026269
* EoL: 1199775
* GBIF: 2139654
* iNaturalist: 360521
* ITIS: 873811
* NCBI: 29934
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020878

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