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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]
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 ...
A funnel-web spider of the family Agelenidae sitting in its funnel-shaped web. Agelena labyrinthica female in web. Funnel-web spider refers to many different species of spider, particularly those that spin a web in the shape of a funnel: spiders in the family Agelenidae, including Hololena curta; funnel-web tarantulas (suborder Mygalomorphae):
The “classic” Sydney funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus, is found from the Central Coast to the Sydney Basin; the Southern Sydney funnel-web, Atrax montanus, is common in the Blue Mountains ...
Hololena curta, commonly known as corner funnel weaver or funnel web spider, is a species of venomous spiders belonging to a family of Agelenidae. It is native to Canada and the United States. [1] This species and related species produce a venom that contains a group of insecticidal acylpolyamines, insecticidal peptide, [2] and a group of ...
A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named Hemsworth, the ...
Hadronyche alpina, also known as the Alpine funnel-web spider or Kosciusko funnel-web spider, is a species of funnel-web spider in the Atracidae family. It is endemic to Australia . It was described in 2010 by Australian arachnologist Michael R. Gray .