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Sydney funnel-web spider

Atrax robustus
Ci turam: The species name robustus comes from the Latin word for strong, sturdy or mature.1
Mën a reyBenn ci rab yi gën a rey ci àddina. Su la màttee, woo ndimbal ci saa si.Dafay rey ci ay minit. Ndimbal war na nekk ci yoon wi ba noppi.
Tarentule ak atrax Dafay màttDafay lekk: Yàpp
Musiba ci nit: Mën a reyBenn ci rab yi gën a am musiba ci àddina.

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

Dafay dund ci
Eastern Australia, mostly within a 100 km radius of Sydney, New South Wales1
Ostarali ak Oseyani
Kër
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
Guddaay
5 cm (2 in)1
Gaawaay bu gën a kawe
lu tollu ci 1,4 km/h (0,87 mph)
Ci suuf, xalaat
Lan lay lekk?
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
Dëgg-dëgg!Fotoy Sydney funnel-web spider
Sydney funnel-web spider. Foto: Sputniktilt. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Ni ngay ko xàmmee

  • 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

Kàttanu daŋar

Dafay màtt

Daŋar bi dafay génn ci bëñam yi su màttee.

Lan la daŋar biy sóob di def?

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

Ni mu lore nit ñi?

Musiba ci nit: Mën a reyBenn ci rab yi gën a am musiba ci àddina.

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

Xibaar bu baax: doktoor yi am nañu garab (sérum antivenimeux) walla ab paj ngir lii.1

Lan lay def bu tiitee?

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

Su màttee

  • 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
  • Raxas fa mu màtt te sedal ko. Wutal ndimbal doktoor su metit wi dëgëree walla yaramu nit ki baaxul.
  • Ci Ostarali, màttu jargoñ bu ñuul bu réy bu nekk, jàppal ko ni màttu atrax: Immobilisation ak pression: laxasal ab bànd élastique bu dëgër ci kaw fa mu màtt, ba noppi nga laxas cër bi yépp jëm kaw, takkal ko attelle, te def ba nit ki bañ a yëngu dara ba ndimbal ñëw.

Saa su nekk, woo jëkk sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911). Lii ay ndigal yu yaatu ci ndimbal yu jëkk la, du ndigalu doktoor. Li war a xam ci ndimbal yu jëkk

Sàmmal sa bopp

  • Bul laal mukk, bul jàpp, bul sonal ab rab bu àll, doonte bu ndaw la, te doonte dafa mel ni dafa nelaw walla dafa dee.
  • May ko bérab. Su nga ko gisee, dalal, dellu ginnaaw ndànk-ndànk te bàyyi ko mu dem yoonam.
  • Su benn màttee la: dalal, bul yëngu, woo sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911) walla dem lopitaan ci gaaw. Bul fàtte ni mu meloon, ab nataal dina dimbali.

Du la wut. Dafay jëfandikoo daŋaram ngir jàpp lu muy lekk walla ngir aar boppam, te nëbbu moo ko gën a neex. Yeneen ci ni ngay sàmme sa bopp

Ni mu réye?

Ni mu guddoo?

Sydney funnel-web spider guddaayam lu tollu ci 5 cm (2 in)Ab trombone lu tollu ci 3 cm (1,2 in)Ab smartphone lu tollu ci 15 cm (5,9 in)
gën a gàtt sa baaraam bu ndawmën na daw 100 meetar ci 260 segond (nit ki gën a gaaw soxla na 9,6)

Sydney funnel-web spider ni mu réye ci wetu YOW?

Ay waññ rekk ci sa navigateur. Dara du denc te dara du yónnee fenn.

Ni mu gaawe?

baax na xam

Xibaar

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

Tasukatu léeb

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

Dëgg: 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

Ngir boroom xam-xam ci daŋar

Turu xam-xam
Atrax robustus
Mbooloo
Tarentule ak atrax
Njaboot
Atracidae2
Toftal
Araneae
Kontinaa yi
Ostarali ak Oseyani
Musiba ci nit
5 / 5: Mën a rey3

Fa xibaar yi jóge

  1. Sydney funnel-web spider (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Atrax robustus (iNaturalist): tur ak ni ñu leen séddale.
  3. Venom Wiki: tolluwaayu musiba bi, réyaay bu yem bi ak xalaatu gaawaay bi, nun ñoo leen defar. Seetal ni nu leen waññe: Ni nuy natte musiba.

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