Hobo spider
Eratigena agrestis (Walckenaer, 1802)
Status not recordedspiders
The hobo spider (Eratigena agrestis) is a species in the family Agelenidae, order Araneae. Recorded adults reach 1.5 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Italy.
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Quick facts about the hobo spider
- Weight
- Not recorded
- Length
- 9 mm – 1.5 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Invertivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- grassland, human_modifiedsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- Not recorded
- Generations a year
- Onesrc for Generations a year
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- 1 countrysrc for Countries on record
How big is the hobo spider?
Where does the hobo spider 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 hobo spider 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 hobo spider as introduced in 3 countries.
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 hobo spider 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 hobo spider classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classArachnida
- orderAraneae
- familyAgelenidae
- genusEratigena
- SpeciesEratigena agrestis (Walckenaer, 1802)
Synonyms Aranea agrestis, Eratigena magnacava, Eratigena osellai, Eratigena rhaetica, Eratigena trinacriae, Philoica agrestis, Tegenaria agrestis, Tegenaria alpestris, Tegenaria magnacava, Tegenaria osellai, Tegenaria rhaetica, Tegenaria trinacriae
Other names and names in other languages (15)
- pokoutník stepníCzech
- VagabondedderkopDanish
- Ruderat-husedderkopDanish
- FeldwinkelspinneGerman
- Tégénaire des champsFrench
- réti zugpókHungarian
- Pievinis kampavorisLithuanian
- Tłʼóoʼdi naʼashjéʼii ntsaaíNavajo
- VeldtrechterspinDutch
- Kątnik wiejskiPolish
- Луговой паукRussian
- Эратигена полеваяRussian
- Паук домовый бродячийRussian
- kútnik stepnýSlovak
- luffarspindelSwedish
Relatives of the hobo spider
Other species in the same genus Eratigena.
CompareHobo spider vs House spiderHobo spider vs House spiderHobo spider vs Giant house spiderHobo spider vs Eratigena africana
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the hobo spider?
An adult hobo spider measures 9 mm – 1.5 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Where does the hobo spider live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the hobo spider for 1 country: Italy. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
Is the hobo spider an invasive species?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the hobo spider as introduced in 3 countries: Canada, Denmark and United Kingdom, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.
What kind of animal is the hobo spider?
The hobo spider (Eratigena agrestis) 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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