The spider species Tegenaria domestica, commonly known as the barn funnel weaver in North America and the domestic house spider in Europe, is a member of the funnel-web family Agelenidae.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Wolff et al. 2022Pekár 2014aMacías-Hernández et al. 2020Official Gazette 2010-2016Entling et al. 2007Mammola et al. 2021Staręga et al. 2001SLU 2020Gajdoš et al. 2014Henriksen & Hilmo 2015Harvey et al. 2017Liste France 2018Hyvärinen et al. 2019Bruun & Lissner 2019Lemke et al. 2013Sacher & Platen 2004Hiebsch & Tolke 1996Buchholz et al. 2011Martin 2012Finch 2004Kielhorn 2017Blick & Scheidler 2004Blick et al. 2016Řezáč et al. 2015Maelfait et al. 1998Mammola et al. 2018Pekár et al. 2016Bolzern et al. 2008Bolzern et al. 2013Forster & Wilton 1973Paik 1971Nentwig et al. 2018Cardoso et al. 2011
Morphometry37
ALE0.17 mm
AME0.15 mm
Abdomen length4.58 mm
Abdomen width3.0 mm
Body length♀8.64·♂7.75 mm
Cephalothorax height♀1·♂1.07 mm
Cephalothorax length♀3.79·♂3.86 mm
Cephalothorax width♀2.86·♂3 mm
Fang length♀0.932·♂0.886 mm
Femur I length3.63 mm
Femur II length3.38 mm
Femur III length3.26 mm
Femur IV length4 mm
Leg I length14.28 mm
Leg II length13.12 mm
Leg III length12.22 mm
Leg IV length15.76 mm
Metatarsus I length3.63 mm
Metatarsus II length3.36 mm
Metatarsus III length3.36 mm
Metatarsus IV length4.58 mm
PLE0.19 mm
PME0.17 mm
Patella I length1.4 mm
Patella II length1.4 mm
Patella III length1.2 mm
Patella IV length1.36 mm
Tarsus I length2.32 mm
Tarsus II length2 mm
Tarsus III length1.6 mm
Tarsus IV length2 mm
Tibia I length♀3.45·♂4.07 mm
Tibia I width0.42 mm
Tibia II length3.09 mm
Tibia III length2.77 mm
Tibia IV length3.87 mm
Tibia IV width0.34 mm
Predation3
Hunting guildsheet web weavers
Hunting guild 2sheet web builder
Web buildingyes
Ecology9
Circadian activity1 mm
Legal protectionYes
Light0.75 mm
MicrohabitatCave entrance (twilight zone)
Moisture 10.5 mm
Regional IUCN Red List categoryLeast Concern (lc)
Regional non-IUCN Red List categoryLeast Concern (*)
Stratum0.33 mm
Subterranean affinityTroglophile
Biomechanics1
'Primary mode of locomotionwalking
Life History1
Instar duration20 mm
Defence1
Retreatstone, house
Morphology1
Cribellumabsent
05DNA & barcoding59 specimens
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Tegenaria domestica has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens59
BINs1
Marker genes2
eDNA detections57
Countries15
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus49 specimens
ACGT
▸ drag or hover over the strip to read any position — letter and how much it varies
Violet ticks below the strip = positions where individuals differ; flat = the species' unchanging signature. 100% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 3 variable positions, in barcode order
Each circle is a barcode variant; bigger = more specimens, colour = region. Lines join the most similar variants and the tick marks count the mutations between them — a tight cluster is one “dialect”, a long line a more divergent lineage. Click a circle to list its actual specimens.
Diversity (π)1.3%
Haplotypes7
BIN1
Most divergent pair16.9%
N.AmericaEurope
Closest relatives by DNA barcode
The species whose COI barcode is most similar to this one — a quick “who is this most like”. The percentage is how much the barcode differs; it approximates, but is not, the full evolutionary tree.
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★COI-5P18S-5P
animal barcoderibosomal
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type8 054 records
Wild obs. + sensor6 846
Museum / vouchered1 180
Other28
Origin
Native48
Introduced32
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO20 580 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy75% within 1 km
≤100 m 3 493≤1 km 1 069≤10 km 758>10 km 765
6 085 georeferenced · 761 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor6 846
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy36% within 1 km
≤100 m 91≤1 km 70≤10 km 169>10 km 119
449 georeferenced · 731 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 180
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions30 of 55 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Denver, US
425
Helsinki, FI
148
Brussels, BE
72
Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record
47
Cambridge, US
39
UAclocation not on record
32
Copenhagen, DK
31
Ohio State University Acarology Laboratorylocation not on record
31
Frankfurt am Main
26
NSMKlocation not on record
19
Chicago, US
17
Ekaterinburg, RU
14
Edmonton, CA
14
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallerylocation not on record
13
Cape Town, ZA
11
Paro, BT
10
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
10
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
10
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
10
Mexico City, MX
9
Bern, CH
8
Albuquerque, US
8
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (IPAE), UB RASlocation not on record
7
Tartu, EE
7
Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record
7
Sydney, AU
7
Los Angeles, US
7
University of Tokyo, Department of Zoologylocation not on record
6
Saint John, CA
6
Royal Museum for Central Africalocation not on record
6
Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record
4
Bonn, DE
4
Buenos Aires, AR
4
Liverpool, GB
4
Champaign, US
4
Universidad de La Salle (La Salle)location not on record
2
Museo de Zoologia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuadorlocation not on record
2
Western Australian Museumlocation not on record
2
Vancouver, CA
2
KIBSlocation not on record
2
BioFokuslocation not on record
2
WIlocation not on record
2
RMZlocation not on record
2
University Park, US
1
Paris, FR
1
1
Uniwersytet w Białymstokulocation not on record
1
Cincinnati, US
1
Essig Museum of Entomologylocation not on record
1
Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
1
New Haven, US
1
Tilburg, NL
1
Prioksko-Terrasnyi Biosphere Reservelocation not on record
1
NTNU University Museum, Department of Natural Historylocation not on record
1
US
1
55 institutions · 1 105 of 1 180 vouchered records shown · 65 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA57 detections
Where the DNA of Tegenaria domestica was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found57
Studies independent surveys2
Countries12
Verifiable raw sequence linked2
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median12.2 °C 0.1–19.9
Seasonal swing summer↔winter22.4 °C
Max temp (day)15.0 °C 2.50–23.8
Min temp (night)8.90 °C -3.80–15.0
Precipitation66.1 mm/mo 33.3–112
Air humidity60.0 % 58.1–66.5
Moisture balance-0.9 mm/mo -64.5–61.8
Vapour deficit553 Pa 248–974
Wind speed2.90 m/s 1.80–5.10
Cloud cover44.2 % 36.0–61.2
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 41 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation12 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility8 054 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI57 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics59 specimens↗
World Spider Trait DBMasaryk University53 traits · 33 refs↗
World Spider CatalogNaturhist. Museum Bernworld catalog↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗