Species Hadronyche valida (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Atrax valida Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169 [24 Dec. 1918] [165].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K40961, KS955 ♀ adult, Tamborine Mtn, QLD.
  Paratype(s) SAMA N198165 ♂ ♀ adult (in same tube, no locality); AM K41452, KS956 3♀ adult; AM K40963, KS958 ♀ adult; AM K40964, KS959 ♀ adult; AM K41457, KS957 2♀ adult
  Comment: the existence of several specimens, including juveniles, is mentioned by Rainbow and Pulleine (1918), but no male is discussed. Gray (2010) does not list the SAMA male and female listed here (information from Main, 1985).
• Anepsiada ventricosa Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169 [24 Dec. 1918] [167-168 fig 120 (pl. 14)] [NB Gray (2010:377-378) reports that re-examination of the type female suggests that it may be misplaced here and its status should be reviewed when females belonging to the lamingtonensis group are known].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K40965 ♀ adult, Cloncurry, QLD; incorrect (published) record, emended to Tamborine Mtn (according to old register data) by M.R. Gray.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gray, M.R. 1984. The taxonomy of the Atrax adelaidensis species-group (Macrothelinae: Mygalomorphae) with notes on burrowing behaviour. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 18: 441-452 [441] (inferred synonymy of Anepsiada ventricosa as juvenile of Atrax validus prior to accepted synonomy)
• Gray, M.R. cited in Main, B.Y. 1985. Mygalomorphae. 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. [42] (probably Anepsiada ventricosa Rainbow & Pulleine synonymous with Atrax validus; Cloncurry locality for Anepsiada, is in error)

 

Generic Combinations

• Hadronyche valida (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918). —
  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] (transferred from Atrax)
• Atrax validus Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918. —
  Gray, M.R. 1984. The taxonomy of the Atrax adelaidensis species-group (Macrothelinae: Mygalomorphae) with notes on burrowing behaviour. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 18: 441-452 [441] (inferred synonymy of Anepsiada ventricosa as juvenile of Atrax validus prior to accepted synonomy)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Border Ranges of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, fossorial, open forest, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Burrower often under logs, silk expansion from burrow, predator of vertebrates as well as invertebrates.

 

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. (biology)

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] [361-364 figs 75A-G, 76A-G, 77A-K, 78 tables 22, 34] (taxonomy, morphology)

Main, B.Y. 1982. Some zoogeographic considerations of families of spiders occurring in New Guinea. pp. 583-602 in Gressitt, J.L (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea. The Hague : Junk. (also states record from Papua New Guinea probably in error)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020		29-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		27-Jul-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)