Giant Japanese funnel-web spider

{{Short description|Species of spider}}

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| image = Macrothele.gigas.female.-.tanikawa.jpg

| image_caption = Female Macrothele gigas

| image2 = Macrothele.gigas.male.-.tanikawa.jpg

| image2_caption = Male Macrothele gigas

| taxon = Macrothele gigas

| authority = Shimojana & Haupt, 1998

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The Giant Japanese funnel-web spider, known formally as Macrothele gigas, is a species of funnel-web spider in the family Macrothelidae.{{Cite web |last=taxonomy |title=Taxonomy browser (Macrothele gigas) |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?lvl=0&id=223896 |access-date=2024-08-28 |website=www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov}} It is one of the largest funnel-web spiders in the world, and is highly venomous.{{Cite journal |last1=Luo |first1=Yi |last2=Mao |first2=Yan-Chiao |last3=Liu |first3=Po-Yu |last4=Chiang |first4=Liao-Chun |last5=Lai |first5=Kuo-Lung |last6=Chien |first6=Ju-Ying |date=2022-07-15 |title=A potential life-threatening Asian funnel-web spider bite (Macrothele gigas) in central Taiwan |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35447105/ |journal=Toxicon|volume=213 |pages=83–86 |doi=10.1016/j.toxicon.2022.04.010 |issn=1879-3150 |pmid=35447105|bibcode=2022Txcn..213...83L }}