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 | |
| Synonyms | |
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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. It contains five species. Originally placed with the curtain web spiders, it was moved to the Hexathelidae in 1980, then to the Australian funnel-web spiders in 2018.