Agroeca brunnea

Agroeca brunnea
	A. brunnea, adult male
	A. brunnea, adult female
Scientific classification
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

^ 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.
^ 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.
^ "Agroeca brunnea (Blackwall, 1833) | ArachnoPhoto". www.arachnophoto.com. Retrieved 2020-09-25.

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