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Plazi
Diagnosis. Medium to large sized (carapace length between 2 and 7 mm ) Agelenidae with plumose hairs present (absent in Lycosoides Lucas, 1846 , Maimuna Lehtinen, 1967 , and Textrix Sundevall, 1833 ), AER and PER straight or only slightly curved in dorsal view ( Figs 3–5 ; both rows recurved in Lycosoides , Maimuna , and Textrix ; both rows procurved in Agelena Walckenaer, 1805 , Agelescape Levy, 1996 , Allagelena Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2006, and Benoitia Lehtinen, 1967 ) and moderately procurved in frontal view ( Figs 2 , 7 ; AER strongly procurved in Agelena , Agelescape , Allagelena , Benoitia , and Malthonica Simon, 1898 ; AER recurved in Lycosoides , Maimuna , and Textrix ), cheliceral retromargin with six or more teeth ( Fig. 10 ; up to six teeth in Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 ), straight or slightly curved trochanters ( Fig. 12 ; notched in Aterigena Bolzern et al., 2010 , Histopona Thorell, 1869 , and Malthonica ), lateral spines at patellae absent (as in Histopona , Malthonica , and T egenaria ; present in all other European genera), and colulus forming a rectangular or trapezoidal plate with distal margin straight or W-shaped ( Fig. 9 ; similar in Tegenaria , strongly reduced in Hadites Keyserling, 1862 and Malthonica ; two separated plates in all other European agelenids). Male genitalia are similar to those of Tegenaria specimens, but differ in having an RTA with one or two branches only ( Figs 14–15 , 17–18, 21 ; rather than more complex in most Tegenaria species), a typically massive conductor with a membranous transverse ridge ( Figs 14–15 (R), 17–20), and an only moderately elongated median apophysis with distal plate-like sclerite or without sclerite ( Figs 14–15 (MA), 17–20; sclerite also absent in Agelena , Agelescape , and Benoitia ; MA absent in Histopona and Textrix ). See also Bolzern et al. 2013 .