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Ekifaananyi ekikubiddwa ekya Sydney funnel-web spider
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Sydney funnel-web spider

Atrax robustus
Ku linnya: The species name robustus comes from the Latin word for strong, sturdy or mature.1
KittaEmu ku nsolo ezisinga okutta ku Nsi. Bw'ekuluma, kuba essimu okufuna obuyambi amangu ddala.Kitta mu ddakiika ntono. Obuyambi bulina okuba nga bwali bumaze okukwata ekkubo.
Tarantula ne funnel-web KirumaKirya: Ennyama
Akabi eri abantu: KittaEmu ku nsolo ezisinga akabi mu nsi.

The Sydney funnel-web spider is a venomous spider from eastern Australia. It is found mostly within about 100 km of Sydney. Its bite can cause serious illness or death if it is not treated, so it is one of the most important spiders to know about in the region.1

Kibeera mu
Eastern Australia, mostly within a 100 km radius of Sydney, New South Wales1
Awusitureeliya ne Oseyaniya
Awaka
It lives in moist places, such as under logs, rocks and foliage, and in moist sand and clay. Males often wander into backyards and houses, and can fall into swimming pools.1
Obuwanvu
5 cm (2 in)1
Embiro ezisinga
nga 1,4 km/h (0,87 mph)
Ku lukalu, kuteebereza bwokka
Kirya ki?
It eats insects such as beetles and cockroaches, land snails, millipedes, lizards and frogs. It waits in a silk-lined burrow and rushes out when prey walks across the trip-lines around the entrance, then injects venom to subdue it.1
Ddala!Ekifaananyi kya Sydney funnel-web spider
Sydney funnel-web spider. Ekifaananyi: Sputniktilt. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Engeri y'okukitegeera

  • Body length is 1 to 5 cm.1
  • Both sexes are glossy and darkly coloured, from blue-black or black to brown or dark plum.1
  • The top of the body is almost hairless and looks smooth and shiny.1
  • It has finger-like spinnerets at the end of the abdomen.1
  • Males are smaller than females but have longer legs.1

Amaanyi g'obusagwa

Kiruma

Obusagwa buyita mu mannyo gaakyo amawanvu (fangs) oba mu mannyo amalala nga kiruma.

Obusagwa bwakyo bukola ki?

The venom contains delta-atracotoxin, which affects the ion channels of nerves and makes it highly toxic to humans and other primates. Symptoms can include intense nausea, vomiting, excessive saliva, muscle twitching, breathing difficulty, confusion and unconsciousness. In severe cases, symptoms begin in under one hour, with a median time of 28 minutes in one study.1

Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?

Akabi eri abantu: KittaEmu ku nsolo ezisinga akabi mu nsi.

A bite can cause serious illness or death if untreated. Children are at particular risk: in one study, 42% of severe cases were children. There is at least one recorded case of a small child dying within 15 minutes of a bite. Only the Sydney funnel-web and the northern tree-dwelling funnel-web have been known to cause fatal bites in humans. There have been no recorded deaths since antivenom became available in 1981.1

Amawulire amalungi: abasawo balina eddagala (antivenom) oba obujjanjabi ku kino.1

Kikola ki nga kitidde?

When threatened or provoked, it rears up on its hind legs, shows its fangs and may bite repeatedly while holding on tightly.1

Bwe kiruma

  • A Sydney funnel-web bite is a medical emergency that needs immediate hospital treatment. Guidelines recommend two vials of antivenom, or four if symptoms are severe, with patients assessed every 15 minutes and more vials given if symptoms do not resolve.1
  • Naaza ekifo ekirumiddwa era okinyogoze. Funa obuyambi bw'abasawo singa obulumi bungi oba omuntu awulira bubi.
  • Mu Awusitureeliya, okulumwa kwonna okwa nnabbubi ennene enzirugavu kujjanjabe ng'okwa funnel-web: Okunyiga n'okunyweza ekitundu (pressure immobilisation): zinga bandeeji egolomoka ennywevu ku kifo ekirumiddwa, oluvannyuma ogende waggulu ku kitundu kyonna (omukono oba okugulu), kinyweze n'omuti (splint), era omuntu muleke ateetambulira ddala okutuusa obuyambi lwe butuuka.

Bulijjo sooka kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911). Buno bulagirizi bwa bujjanjabi obusooka obwa bulijjo, si kuwabula kwa musawo. Obujjanjabi obusooka obw'omusingi

Weekuume

  • Tokwatako, tokwata wadde okusoomooza ensolo ey'omu nsiko, ne bw'eba ntono, era ne bw'eba erabika nga yeebase oba nga efudde.
  • Gireke n'ebbanga. Bw'osisinkana emu, beera mukkakkamu, dda emabega mpola era gireke egende mu kkubo lyayo.
  • Bw'emu ekuluma: beera mukkakkamu, totambula, kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911) oba tuuka mu ddwaliro mangu. Jjukira bwe yali efaanana, ekifaananyi kiyamba.

Tekikunoonya. Kikozesa obusagwa bwakyo okukwata emmere oba okwekuuma, era kyandisinze kwekweka. Ebirala ku kwekuuma

Kinene kyenkana wa?

Kiwanvu kyenkana wa?

Sydney funnel-web spider kiwanvu nga 5 cm (2 in)Pepa kiripu nga 3 cm (1,2 in)Essimu ey'omu ngalo (smartphone) nga 15 cm (5,9 in)
kimpi okusinga akagalo ko akatonokyandisobodde okudduka mita 100 mu sikonda 260 (omuntu asinga embiro yeetaaga 9,6)

Sydney funnel-web spider kinene kyenkana wa bw'ogeraageranya ne GGWE?

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Kidduka kyenkana wa?

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Ebituufu

1

Males can survive submersion in water for up to twenty-four hours by trapping air bubbles on the hairs of their abdomen.1

2

One dose of antivenom needs around 70 milkings from a Sydney funnel-web spider.1

3

The most antivenom vials used to treat one bite is twelve, for a 10-year-old boy bitten in February 2017 by a male hiding in a shoe.1

4

Female spiders are long-lived and spend most of their time in their burrows. No severe envenoming by a female has been reported.1

5

Activity increases after heavy rain, because burrows can become flooded.1

Omumenyi w'enfumo

Enfumo: The male and female funnel-web spiders were thought to be different species.

Amazima: In 1927, Anthony Musgrave showed from anatomical similarities that the male Euctimena tibialis was the male of Atrax robustus, the same species as the female.1

Ku bakugu mu busagwa

Erinnya erya ssaayansi
Atrax robustus
Ekibinja
Tarantula ne funnel-web
Amaka
Atracidae2
Ensengeka
Araneae
Ssemazinga
Awusitureeliya ne Oseyaniya
Akabi eri abantu
5 / 5: Kitta3

Ebituufu we biva

  1. Sydney funnel-web spider (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Atrax robustus (iNaturalist): amannya n'ensengeka y'ebika.
  3. Venom Wiki: omutendera gw'akabi, obunene obwa bulijjo n'okuteebereza kw'embiro bibyaffe. Laba engeri gye tubibalamu: Engeri gye tupimamu akabi.

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