Agroeca brunnea

Agroeca brunnea
A. brunnea, adult male
A. brunnea, adult female
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Liocranidae
Genus:	Agroeca
Species:	A. brunnea
Binomial name
Agroeca brunnea Blackwall, 1833
Synonyms
Agelena brunnea Philoica linotina Agroeca haglundi

Agroeca brunnea is a species of spider in the family Liocranidae. It is found in the Palearctic realm and was first described by John Blackwall in 1833. ^[1]

The distinctive egg sacs are known colloquially as 'fairy lamps' ^[2] and the spider itself is sometimes called the 'fairy lamp spider'. ^[3]

Gallery

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  Male pedipalp
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  Adult male
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  Egg sac

References

1. Platnick, Norman I. (10 December 2011). "Fam. Liocranidae". The World Spider Catalog, Version 12.5. New York, NY, USA: American Museum of Natural History . Retrieved 14 April 2012.
2. Wolff, Jonas O.; Gorb, Stanislav N. (2012-09-01). "Comparative morphology of pretarsal scopulae in eleven spider families" . Arthropod Structure & Development. 41 (5): 419–433. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2012.04.004. ISSN   1467-8039.
3. "Agroeca brunnea (Blackwall, 1833) | ArachnoPhoto". www.arachnophoto.com. Retrieved 2020-09-25.