Atrax sutherlandi

1 Funnel-web Spider at Morans Crossing, NSW

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Identification history

	Atrax sutherlandi	19 Aug 2019	Harrisi
	Unidentified	18 Aug 2019	Harrisi

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PaulWhitington wrote:

19 Aug 2019

Lovely sighting, Stuart! I’m confident it’s Atrax, based on the weakly raised caput and the robust cheliceral paturon. As it’s a female, it lacks the features that would allow a definitive ID to species level (shape of tibia II apophysis). However from location one would assume Atrax sutherlandi as Atrax yorkmainorum, the only other possible Atrax sp. hasn’t been reported east of the Divide according to Gray, 2010 Records of the Australian Museum. Also the cephalothorax looks very similar to the male Atrax sutherlandi I found at Bournda last year ( Atrax sutherlandi (Funnel-web Spider) on 9 Nov 2018). So I’d call it A. sutherlandi.

Harrisi wrote:

19 Aug 2019

Hi Paul, nice creature to encounter. Was under a small old log next to Bemboka River @ Moran's Xing, will def stop there in future for a variety of reasons, in the right seasons! I also thought A. sutherlandi initially re the small size and low caput, etc, though as a matter of course these days I send 'Mygals' off to Adam Parsons in the Sth Highlands who is a bit of a gun on these things. He confirmed A. sutherlandi. Regards A. yorkmainorum, i found one of these big ♀ beauties last spring near where my wife works in woodland near Crace, a new suburb of Canberra. It was under a piece of thick fallen bark and the temp was the first sunny 20°C day we had last spring, and luckily she was out of her burrow. The pics of that are in CNM, and the loc is def east of the GDR. Nice to 'work' with you the other day, hope to catch up again this season (I may well be doing a trip down there for beetles in OCT/NOV as the lovely family i stayed with has invited me back :)

PaulWhitington wrote:

20 Aug 2019

Glad I got that one right! Yes, I saw and greatly admired your A. yorkmainorum on CNM last year. You must plan a day trip to Wonboyn on your next trip down here!

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