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Genus: Venomius Rossi, Castanheira, Baptista & Framenau, 2023 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Venomius tomhardyi Rossi, Castanheira, Baptista & Framenau, 2023

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059119

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania)

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Queen Victoria Museum (QVM) and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia m (2023:13:0100) - (Rossi et al., 2023)

Taxonomic References

Venomius tomhardyi Rossi et al., 2023: 287, f. 1A-E, 2A-D, 3A-E, 4A-B (Dmf) Original description

Venomius tomhardyi Kuntner et al., 2025: 15, f. 12B, S7A-H (m)

References

Kuntner, M., Yu, K. P., Bedjanič, M., Gregorič, M., Turk, E., Čandek, K., Coddington, J. A., Agnarsson, I., Starrett, J. & Bond, J. E. (2025). Osmooka, a new spider genus from Madagascar: a surprising relative of the Australian fauna (Araneae: Paraplectanoididae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 9(6, ixaf050): 1-26, Suppl. 20 pp. doi: 10.1093/isd/ixaf050 -- Show included taxa

Rossi, G. de F., Castanheira, P. de S., Baptista, R. L. C. & Framenau, V. W. (2023). Venomius, a new monotypic genus of Australian orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae). Evolutionary Systematics 7(2): 285-292. doi: 10.3897/evolsyst.7.110022 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference
2026-01-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Kuntner et al., 2025
2023-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Rossi et al., 2023
2023-09-06	New species inserted	Rossi et al., 2023