Hadronyche pulvinator
{{Short description|Species of spider}}
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| extinct = yes
| genus = Hadronyche
| species = pulvinator
| authority = (Hickman, 1927){{cite journal |last1=Hickman|first1=VV | date=1927 |title=Studies in Tasmanian spiders. Pt 1.|url= |journal= Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania|volume=1926|issue= |pages=52–86 [70–72] |doi= |access-date=}}
| synonyms = {{Specieslist
|Atrax pulvinator |Hickman, 1927}}
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Hadronyche pulvinator, also known as the Cascade funnel-web spider, is a species of funnel-web spider in the Atracidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1927 by Australian arachnologist Vernon Victor Hickman.{{cite web |url= https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/cbab80c8-ca4c-476b-995b-0b9d68ab2b78 |title= Species Hadronyche pulvinator (Hickman, 1927) |author= |date=2022|website= Australian Faunal Directory |publisher=Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia |access-date= 2023-05-12}}
Distribution and habitat
The species occurred in south-east Tasmania; it is now presumed to be extinct under Tasmania's Threatened Species Protection Act 1995.{{cite web |url= https://nre.tas.gov.au/conservation/threatened-species-and-communities/lists-of-threatened-species/threatened-species-invertebrates/threatened-species-invertebrate-animals-e-z/cascade-funnel-web-spider |title= Cascade Funnel-Web Spider|author= |date=2017|website= Conservation |publisher=Dept of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania |access-date= 2023-05-12}} It is known only from the female holotype specimen collected in 1926 from the type locality of Cascades, now a western suburb of Hobart, in the foothills of Mount Wellington.{{cite journal |last1=Gray|first1=MR | date=2010 |title=A Revision of the Australian Funnel-web Spiders (Hexathelidae: Atracinae)|url=https://journals.australian.museum/gray-2010-rec-aust-mus-623-285392/ |journal= Records of the Australian Museum |volume=62|issue=2 & 3 |pages=285–392 [354–355] |doi= 10.3853/j.0067-1975.62.2010.1556|access-date=|doi-access=free }}
References
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Category:Endemic fauna of Australia
Category:Arthropods of Tasmania
Category:Spiders described in 1927
Category:Taxa named by Vernon Victor Hickman
Category:Extinct animals of Australia
Category:Species known from a single specimen
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