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Abstract New taxonomic and faunistic data on the agelenid spiders of Turkiye and the Caucasus are provided. Five species are described as new to science: Maimunaantalyensissp. nov. (♂♀; Turkiye: Antalya), Tegenariaballarinisp. nov. (♂♀; Turkiye: Antalya), T.beyazcikasp. nov. (♂; Turkiye: Antalya), T.egrisianasp. nov. (♂♀; Georgia: Imereti), and T.hoeferisp. nov. (♂♀; Armenia: Kotayk). Tegenarialazarovi Dimitrov, 2020, syn. nov. is proposed as a new junior synonym of T.averni Brignoli, 1978. Persiscapecaucasica (Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen, 2005) is newly reported from Armenia, and T.chumachenkoi Kovblyuk & Ponomarev, 2008 is reported for the first time from Turkiye. New distribution records for T.dalmatica Kulczyński, 1906, T.hamid Brignoli, 1978, T.longimana Simon, 1898 and T.percuriosa Brignoli, 1972, and topotype material for T.tekke Brignoli, 1978 are reported. The record of Eratigenafuesslini (Pavesi, 1873) from Turkiye is found to be based on a misidentification, and is herein attributed to T.hamid. The presence of an embolic spine, unknown in any other species of Tegenaria, is documented in T.anhela Brignoli, 1972 for the first time. Photographs are provided for all treated species.