Taxon details

Family: Atracidae / Genus: Atrax

Atrax christenseni Dupérré & Smith, 2025

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-01-13
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063540]
  • Distribution: Australia (New South Wales)
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Australian Museum, Sydney (AMS), Australia; m (KS.131644) (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)
  • Allotype: Australian Museum, Sydney (AMS), Australia; f (KS.131645) (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).
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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2025-01-13 New taxonomic reference entry Loria et al., 2025 n/a
2025-01-13 New species inserted Loria et al., 2025 n/a