Funnel-web Spider at Sanctuary Point, NSW
Identification history
| Hadronyche versuta | 23 Jun 2019 | KimPullen | ||
| Hadronyche versuta | 6 Jun 2019 | KimPullen | ||
| Atrax robustus | 1 Jun 2019 | christinemrigg |
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4 comments
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.
Location information
- Coordinates 150.638120-35.105532
- Places Sanctuary Point, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 7 Nov 2015 12:00 AM Recorded on
- christinemrigg Recorded by
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Collections
christinemrigg South Coast NatureMapr Hadronyche versuta Trapdoor, Funnelweb or Mouse spiders (Mygalomorphae) Spiders
Species information
- Hadronyche versuta Scientific name
- Funnel-web Spider Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 713m Recorded at altitude