Hadronyche versuta

Funnel-web Spider at Sanctuary Point, NSW

Hadronyche versuta at Sanctuary Point, NSW - 7 Nov 2015 12:00 AM
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Hadronyche versuta 23 Jun 2019 KimPullen
Hadronyche versuta 6 Jun 2019 KimPullen
Atrax robustus 1 Jun 2019 christinemrigg

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4 comments

Jenjen wrote:
   6 Jun 2019
Yikes!
KimPullen wrote:
   7 Jun 2019
Certainly looks like a funnelweb (a female), but I doubt it is Atrax robustus, which is not recorded south of Kiama and Gerringong (see Michael Gray's 2010 taxonomic revision of funnelweb spiders, downloadable from https://journals.australianmuseum.net.au/gray-2010-rec-aust-mus-623-285392/). It is more likely to be the so-called Blue Mountains funnelweb, Hadronyche versuta, which Gray records from many Illawarra, Nowra and Jervis Bay localities.
KimPullen wrote:
   7 Jun 2019
Having said that, this is still one to avoid! Especially the males, which are the deadly ones. I seem to recall that a woman was killed by a funnelweb at Currarong, before the antivenom was available.
KimPullen wrote:
   24 Jun 2019
To make a certain ID, the specimen would need to be examined. But I will take the liberty of calling it H. versuta, going on the locality.

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