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Missulena bradleyi (Eastern mouse spider) Anamidae: 10: 143: Aname diversicolor (black wishbone spider) Atracidae: 3: 38: Australian funnel-web spiders: Atrax robustus (Sydney funnel-web spider) Barychelidae: 39: 284: brushed trapdoor spiders: Sason sundaicum: Bemmeridae: 4: 50: Spiroctenus personatus: Ctenizidae: 2: 5: cork-lid trapdoor ...
They live in burrows, often with a hinged trapdoor. This door is pushed up while the spider waits for passing prey. They rarely leave their burrows, catching prey and withdrawing as quickly as possible. Some of these burrows have side tubes. For the east-Asian genus Sinopesa it is uncertain whether it builds burrows at all. [6]
Venom from the male Sydney funnel-web spider (A. robustus) is used in producing the antivenom, but it appears to be effective against the venom of all species of atracids. [29] Australian funnel-web spider antivenom has also been shown, in vitro, to reverse the effects of eastern mouse spider (Missulena bradleyi) venom. [30]
Perhaps the most famous group of spiders that construct funnel-shaped webs is the Australian funnel-web spiders. There are 36 of them and some are dangerous as they produce a fast-acting and ...
The species is very similar to the ground-dwelling Darling Downs funnel-web spider (Hadronyche infensa); the male northern tree-dwelling funnel-web spider distinguished by its knobby spur on the tibia of the second pair of legs, which the male Darling Downs funnel-web spider lacks. [6] Trapdoor spiders are more brown overall in colour. [6]
Female Sydney funnel-web spider in a warning posture. Octavius Pickard-Cambridge was the first to describe the Sydney funnel-web spider, from a female specimen housed in the British Museum in 1877. Establishing the genus Atrax, he named it Atrax robustus. [4] The species name is derived from the Latin robustus, "strong/sturdy/mature". [5]
Hexathelids typically live in burrows, which are constructed in the ground or in tree hollows. An elaborately constructed burrow entrance is common. These spiders construct a funnel-shaped web and lurk for prey in the small end of the funnel. They frequently search for a place to nest under human dwellings, or under nearby rocks, logs, or other ...
Trapdoor spiders have rastellum for digging, and Funnel web spiders extend their burrows further with webbing. Although the venom of both are relatively toxic, the Sydney Funnel Web Spider (Atrax Robustus) has been known to be the most dangerous in the world, thus separating the difference between potentially deadly and "medically significant."