South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide: The Agelenidae of South Africa. Version 1 (2020)

The family Agelenidae occurs worldwide and is known from 82 genera and 1323 species (World Spider Catalog 2020). Five genera represented by 10 species,are listed on the National Species List but only four on the World Spider Catalog for South Africa. Most African genera of the family Agelenidae require revision except Mistaria which was revised by Kioko (2019). Around 15 species from South Africa alone have been identified as possibly new or first records for South Africa. Of the 457 specimens presently housed in the
National Collection of Arachnida around 35% are identified to species level. Ten known species are listed as Least Concern. So far only one species Mistaria zuluana (Roewer, 1955) is a South African endemic and the three Tegenaria species are exotic species.