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Genus: Hadronyche L. Koch, 1873 | Family: Atracidae Hogg, 1901

Hadronyche venenata (Hickman, 1927)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000162

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (Tasmania)

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Queen Victoria Museum (QVM) and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia m (957–13–16) - (Gray, 2010)
Allotype: Queen Victoria Museum (QVM) and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia f (957–13–17) - (Gray, 2010)

Taxonomic References

Atrax venenatus Hickman, 1927: 63, f. 8-11, pl. 6 (Dmf) Original description

Atrax venenatus Hickman, 1967: 20, f. 25-28 (m)

Hadronyche venenata Gray, 1988: 114 (T from Atrax)

Hadronyche venenata Gray, 2010: 329, f. 38A-G, 39A-G, 40A-K (mf)

Hadronyche venenata Raven & Douglas, 2025: 10, f. 3f-g (m)

References

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. -- Show included taxa

Gray, M. R. (2010). A revision of the Australian funnel-web spiders (Hexathelidae: Atracinae). Records of the Australian Museum 62(3): 285-392. doi: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.62.2010.1556 -- Show included taxa

Hickman, V. V. (1927). Studies in Tasmanian spiders. Part I. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1926: 52-86. -- Show included taxa

Hickman, V. V. (1967). Some common spiders of Tasmania. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 112 pp. -- Show included taxa

Raven, R. J. & Douglas, J. C. (2025). A review of the relationships of Australian funnel-web spiders with a new species of funnel-web spider from far north-eastern Tasmania (Hexathelidae: Atracinae: Araneae). Record of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery 122: 1-16. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-06-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Raven & Douglas, 2025