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Barbara York Main, based in Western Australia, wrote a Jacaranda Pocket Guide in 1964. John Child published Spiders of Australia in 1965. In 1967 V. V. Hickman, contributed Some Common Spiders of Tasmania. Ion Staunton was author of a factfinder book All about Australian Spiders in 1968. Densey Clyne published
The brown snake is not the most venomous Australian snake, but it has caused the most deaths. [1]Wildlife attacks in Australia occur every year from several different native species, [2] [3] including snakes, spiders, freshwater and saltwater crocodiles, various sharks, cassowaries, kangaroos, stingrays and stonefish and a variety of smaller marine creatures such as bluebottles, blue-ringed ...
Selenocosmia stirlingi, Australian Common Whistling spider Selenotypus plumipes, Australian Featherleg spider. Family Theridiidae. Redback Latrodectus hasselti Ariamnes spp., Whip spiders Latrodectus hasselti, Redback spider Nesticodes rufipes, Red-legged House spider Steatoda grossa, Cupboard spider Thwaitesia argentiopunctata, Silver Dewdrop ...
Range of the two genera (Hadronyche and Atrax) of venomous Australian funnel-web spiders. A. robustus is one of three designated species of the genus Atrax (the others being A. yorkmainorum and A. sutherlandii). [13] [14] The related genus Hadronyche is represented by about 40 other dangerous species in eastern Australia, including Queensland ...
The redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti), also known as the Australian black widow, [2] [3] [4] is a species of highly venomous spider believed to originate in Australia but now, Southeast Asia and New Zealand, it has also been found in packing crates in the United States with colonies elsewhere outside Australia. [5]
The primary range of the Australian funnel-web spiders is the eastern coast of Australia, with specimens found in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and Queensland. [2] [7] The only Australian states or territories without members of this family are Western Australia [8] and the Northern Territory.
The spiders dig a burrow up to 55 cm deep, with two trapdoors. Females are approximately 35 mm long, stout, short-legged, and mostly dark brown to black (but the jaws are sometimes red-tinged). The smaller males are approximately 15 mm long, have longer and thinner legs, and the head and jaws are bright red while the abdomen is gunmetal blue to ...
Ariadna decatetracantha Main, 1954 – Western Australia; Ariadna dentigera Purcell, 1904 – South Africa; Ariadna deserta (Marsh, Stevens, Bradford & Framenau, 2022) – Australia (South Australia) Ariadna dissimilis Berland, 1924 – New Caledonia; Ariadna diucrura (Marsh, Stevens, Bradford & Framenau, 2022) – Australia (South Australia)