Taxon details
Atrax robustus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2025-01-13
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000146]
- Distribution: Australia (New South Wales)
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f (Loria et al., 2025)
- Holotype: Australian Museum, Sydney (AMS), Australia; m (KS.409) of Euctimena tibialis (Loria et al., 2025)
Atrax robustus Hogg, 1901: 273, f. 39 (Df).
Euctimena tibialis Rainbow, 1914a: 249, f. 58-60 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054713].
Atrax robustus Musgrave, 1927: 34 (S of Euctimena tibialis).
Atrax robustus Main, 1964: 40, f. A-F (m).
Atrax robustus Nishikawa, 1976b: 179, f. 1-4 (m).
Atrax robustus Gray, 1984: 441, pl. 7.
Atrax robustus Gray, 1988: 114 (S of Poikilomorphia montana; revalidated by Loria et al., 2025: 14).
Atrax robustus Gray, 2010: 299, f. 1A, C, 4A-H, 5A-G, 6A-K (mf; figs. belong in part to Atrax montanus per Loria et al., 2025: 14).
Atrax robustus Loria et al., 2025: 6, f. 1A-B, 2D, 5A, D, 6A-D, 7A-F, 8A-E, 9A-E, 17 A, C, E, 18A-B (mf).
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 18: 441-452. 
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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: 285-392. -- Show included taxa
Hogg, H. R. (1901). On Australian and New Zealand spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 71(1): 218-279. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08176.x -- Show included taxa
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
Main, B. Y. (1964). Spiders of Australia: a guide to their identification with brief notes on the natural history of common forms. Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, 124 pp. -- Show included taxa
Musgrave, A. (1927). Some poisonous Australian spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 16(1): 33-46, pl. 2-3. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.16.1927.777 -- Show included taxa
Nishikawa, Y. (1976b). Notes on the venomous spiders (funnel-web spider and red-back spider) in Australia. Otemon Bulletin for the Australian Studies 2: 176-193. -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1877c). On some new genera and species of Araneidea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 19(109): 26-39, pl. 6-7. doi:10.1080/00222937708682093 -- Show included taxa
Rainbow, W. J. (1914a). Studies in the Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae. Records of the Australian Museum 10: 187-270. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-13 | Taxonomic reference update | n/a (Old value) | |
| 2025-01-13 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Atrax montanus (Rainbow, 1914) | |
| 2025-01-13 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Atrax montanus (Rainbow, 1914) | |
| 2025-01-13 | New taxonomic reference entry | Loria et al., 2025 | n/a |
| 2020-07-27 | New taxonomic reference entry | Roewer, 1942a | n/a |