Atrax

Atrax
Female Atrax robustus (Sydney funnel-web spider)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Atracidae
Genus: Atrax
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877
Type species
A. robustus
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877
Species
  • A. robustus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 – Australia (New South Wales)
  • A. sutherlandi Gray, 2010 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
  • A. yorkmainorum Gray, 2010 – Australia (New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory)
Synonyms
  • Poikilomorpha Rainbow, 1914
For the mythological figure, see Atrax (mythology). For the ancient city of Thessaly, see Atrax (Thessaly).

Atrax is a genus of venomous Australian funnel web spiders that was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1877 from the type species Atrax robustus. As of May 2019 it contains only three species: A. robustus, A. sutherlandi, and A. yorkmainorum. Originally placed with the curtain web spiders, it was moved to the Hexathelidae in 1980, then to the Australian funnel-web spiders in 2018.

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