World Spider Catalog

Genus: Atrax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 | Family: Atracidae Hogg, 1901

Atrax christenseni Dupérré & Smith, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063540

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (New South Wales)

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Australian Museum, Sydney (AMS), Australia m (KS.131644) - (Loria et al., 2025)
Allotype: Australian Museum, Sydney (AMS), Australia f (KS.131645) - (Loria et al., 2025)
Paratype: Australian Museum, Sydney (AMS), Australia 1m 1f (KS 131046, 131646) - (Loria et al., 2025)
Paratype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany 5m 1f (A 12979, 12991, 12998, 13013, 13020, 24111) - (Loria et al., 2025)

Taxonomic References

Atrax christenseni Dupérré & Smith in Loria et al., 2025: 19, f. 5C, F, 14A-D, 15A-E, 16A-E, 17G-H, 18E-F (Dmf) Original description

References

Loria, S. F., Frank, S.-C., Dupérré, N., Smith, H. M., Jones, B., Buzatto, B. A. & Harms, D. (2025). The world’s most venomous spider is a species complex: systematics of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atracidae: Atrax robustus). BMC Ecology and Evolution 25(7): 1-27. doi: 10.1186/s12862-024-02332-0 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-01-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Loria et al., 2025
2025-01-13	New species inserted	Loria et al., 2025

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