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The Giant Japanese funnel-web spider, known formally as Macrothele gigas, is a species of funnel-web spider in the family Macrothelidae. [1] It is one of the largest funnel-web spiders in the world, and is highly venomous.
Macrothele is a genus of mygalomorph spiders in the family Macrothelidae, and was first described by A. Ausserer in 1871. [3] Most of the species in the genus occur in Asia, from India to Japan, and Java, with five found in Africa, and two in Europe. [1]
Female Agelena labyrinthica in her web funnel in Belgium. Most of the Agelenidae are very fast runners, especially on their webs. With speeds clocked at 1.73 ft/s (0.53 m/s), the giant house spider held the Guinness Book of World Records title for top spider speed until 1987. A recent literature review found peer-reviewed accounts of several ...
The cribellate (lace-weaving) spider (Amaurobius) creates an untidy type of spider web from silk that looks blueish-grey when it is fresh. There is a retreat in the center where the spider waits ...
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 ...
dwarf tarantulas or sheet funnel-web spiders: Mecicobothrium thorelli: Megahexuridae: 1: 1: Megahexura fulva: Avicularioidea: [3] Actinopodidae: 3: 125: Missulena bradleyi (Eastern mouse spider) Anamidae: 10: 143: Aname diversicolor (black wishbone spider) Atracidae: 3: 38: Australian funnel-web spiders: Atrax robustus (Sydney funnel-web spider ...
The Australian Reptile Park recently recorded its largest male funnel-web spider yet, CNN reported. According to the zoo, which is located north of Syndey, Australia, the spider measures a ...
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]