Species Atrax robustus O.P.-Cambridge, 1877

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• Atrax robustus Cambridge, O.P.- 1877. On some new genera and species of Araneidea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 19: 26-39 pls 6-7 [Jan. 1877] [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 71 ♀ adult, Australia (as New Holland).
• Euctimena tibialis Rainbow, W.J. 1914. Studies in Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae. Records of the Australian Museum 10: 187-270 [15 Aug. 1914] [249-251 figs 58-60].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K3363, KS4092 2♂ adult, Turramurra, NSW.
• Poikilomorpha montana Rainbow, W.J. 1914. Studies in Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae. Records of the Australian Museum 10: 187-270 [15 Aug. 1914] [265-267 figs 71, 72].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K11958, KS1039 ♀ adult (Main (1985) gives the old catalogue number as K11956), Jamieson Valley, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Musgrave, A. 1927. Some poisonous Australian spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 33-46 pls 2-3 [publication date established from Bonnet, P. 1961. Bibliographia Araneorum (1945–1961). Toulouse : Douadoure 3 vols] [34] (E. tibialis with A. robustus)
• Gray, M.R. 1988. Aspects of the systematics of the Australian Funnel web Spiders (Araneae: Hexathelidae: Atracinae) based upon morphological and electrophoretic data. Australian Entomological Society Miscellaneous Publication 5. 113-125 pp. [114] (Atrax montana with A. robustus)

 

Generic Combinations

• Atrax montana (Rainbow, 1914). —
  Main, B.Y. 1985. Mygalomorphae. pp. 1-48 in Walton. D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 3. Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae (part), Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygi and Palpigradi. Canberra : Australian Government Printing Service 183 pp. [41] (transferred from Poikilomorpha to Atrax)
• Atrax robustus (O.P.-Cambridge, 1877). —
  Gray, M.R. 2010. A Revision of the Australian Funnel-web Spiders (Hexathelidae: Atracinae). Records of the Australian Museum 62(2 & 3): 285-392 [Date published 24 November 2010] [299-301 figs 1A,B, 4A-H, 5A-G, 6A-K, 7 tables 2, 34]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Sydney, Central Coast and Illawarra regions and west to the Blue Mountains

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Silk tubes in burrows.

 

General References

Gray, M.R. 1978. Venoms of Dipluridae, A. Systematics and distribution. pp. 120-126 in Bettini, S. (ed.). Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Arthropod Venoms. Berlin : Springer Verl. Vol. 48. (taxonomy, habitat, distribution)

Gray, M.R. 2010. A Revision of the Australian Funnel-web Spiders (Hexathelidae: Atracinae). Records of the Australian Museum 62(2 & 3): 285-392 [Date published 24 November 2010] [299-301 figs 1A,B, 4A-H, 5A-G, 6A-K, 7 tables 2, 34] (taxonomy, morphology, behaviour)

Kaire, G.H. 1963. Observations on some funnel-web spiders (Atrax species) and their venoms, with particular reference to Atrax robustus. Medical Journal of Australia 1963: 307-311 (venom, pharmacology)

Levitt, V. 1961. The funnel-web spider in captivity. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1958–59: 80-84 (biology)

Musgrave, A. 1927. Some poisonous Australian spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 33-46 pls 2-3 [publication date established from Bonnet, P. 1961. Bibliographia Araneorum (1945–1961). Toulouse : Douadoure 3 vols] (distribution, medical)

Sutherland, S.K. 1972. The Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus), 3: A review of some clinical records of human envenomation. Medical Journal of Australia 2: 643-647 (medical)

Sutherland, S.K. 1976. Treatment of arachnid poisoning in Australia. Australian Fam. Physician 5: 305-312 (medical)

Sutherland, S.K. 1978. Venoms of Dipluridae. B. Biology and Venoms. pp. 126-126 in Bettini, S. (ed.). Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Arthropod Venoms. Berlin : Springer Verl. Vol. 48. (venom)

 

History of changes

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15-Oct-2020		27-Jul-2011	MODIFIED
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