Hegyi zigpók
Tegenaria ferruginea (Panzer, 1804)
Status not recordedspiders
The hegyi zigpók (Tegenaria ferruginea) is a species in the family Agelenidae, order Araneae. Recorded adults reach 1.5 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Switzerland.
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Quick facts about the hegyi zigpók
- Weight
- Not recorded
- Length
- 9 mm – 1.5 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Invertivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- forest, human_modified, rockysrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- Not recorded
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- 1 countrysrc for Countries on record
How big is the hegyi zigpók?
Where does the hegyi zigpók live?
Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.
The hegyi zigpók is listed for 1 country.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
Why a country list is not a range map
Listed by: WSC (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.
Where has it been introduced?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the hegyi zigpók as introduced in 1 country.
Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).
Is the hegyi zigpók endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is the hegyi zigpók classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classArachnida
- orderAraneae
- familyAgelenidae
- genusTegenaria
- SpeciesTegenaria ferruginea (Panzer, 1804)
Synonyms Aranea ferruginea, Aranea stabularia, Aranea subpilosa, Araneus ferruginea, Malthonica ferruginea, Malthonica ferruginea, Teganaria ferruginea, Tegenaria heteropalpa, Tegenaria petrensis, Tegenaria stabularia, Tegeneria ferruginea
Other names and names in other languages (11)
- Charcoal spiderEnglish
- pokoutník stájovýCzech
- Rustrød husedderkopDanish
- Rostrote WinkelspinneGerman
- Tégénaire ferreuseFrench
- Tégénaire rouilléeFrench
- Hegyi zugpókHungarian
- Bonte trechterspinDutch
- Kątnik rdzawyPolish
- kútnik hrdzavýSlovak
- laduspindelSwedish
Relatives of the hegyi zigpók
Other species in the same genus Tegenaria.
House spider
Tegenaria domestica
Cardinal spider
Tegenaria parietina
Wood house spider
Tegenaria silvestris
Zamani's funnel-web spider
Tegenaria zamanii
Rural funnel-web spider
Tegenaria pagana
CompareHegyi zigpók vs House spiderHegyi zigpók vs Cardinal spiderHegyi zigpók vs Wood house spiderHegyi zigpók vs Zamani's funnel-web spider
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the hegyi zigpók?
An adult hegyi zigpók measures 9 mm – 1.5 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Where does the hegyi zigpók live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the hegyi zigpók for 1 country: Switzerland. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
Is the hegyi zigpók an invasive species?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the hegyi zigpók as introduced in 1 country: United Kingdom, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.
What kind of animal is the hegyi zigpók?
The hegyi zigpók (Tegenaria ferruginea) belongs to the family Agelenidae in the order Araneae.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-11-13
Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L., Schigel, D. & McGeoch, M.A. (2018) Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Scientific Data 5: 170202. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.202. Country checklists published through GBIF by the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. - TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe · CC BY 4.0 · 2.0
Chauvier, Y., Adde, A., Bergamini, A. et al. (2025) TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15063844
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