Agelenini C. L. Koch, 1837

Zamani, Alireza & Marusik, Yuri M., 2020, A review of Agelenini (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) of Iran and Tajikistan, with descriptions of four new genera, Arachnology 18 (4), pp. 368-386 : 369

Agelenini C. L. Koch, 1837

Agelenini: Lehtinen 1967: 344; Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi 2013: 822.

Remarks: This tribe was mentioned in the two publications cited above, and the limits of the group were discussed in Lehtinen (1967) only. He included 11 genera in this tribe, four from the New World and the other seven restricted to Eurasia and Africa. Since Lehtinen’s (1967) revision, more genera have been described, and currently ten genera are assigned to this tribe in the Old World: Agelena Walckenaer, 1805 , Agelenella Lehtinen, 1967 , Ageleradix Xu & Li, 2007 , Agelescape Levy, 1996 , Allagelena Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2006, Benoitia Lehtinen, 1967 , Huangyuania Song & Li, 1990, Kidugua Lehtinen, 1967 , Mistaria Lehtinen, 1967 , and Tikaderia Lehtinen, 1967 . Three of these genera are monotypic and known by females only: Agelenella , Kidugua , and Tikaderia . Two genera, Ageleradix and Huangyuania , placed by Zhu, Wang & Zhang (2017) in Ageleninae, seem to be misplaced. They lack a patellar apophysis, and the conductor lacks a thumb-like base (Cb) in the middle part of the tegulum, two features that are present in all other members of this group. The placement of three monotypic genera known exclusively by females is also doubtful.