Hadronyche valida
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| genus = Hadronyche
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| authority = (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918){{cite journal |last1=Rainbow|first1=WJ |last2=Pulleine |first2=RH | date=1918 |title= Australian trap-door spiders |url= |journal= Records of the Australian Museum |volume=12|issue= 7|pages=81–169 [167–168] |doi= 10.3853/j.0067-1975.12.1918.882|access-date=|doi-access=free }}
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|Atrax valida |Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918
|Anepsiada ventricosa |Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918
|Atrax validus |Main, 1985}}
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Hadronyche valida, also known as the true funnel-web spider, is a species of funnel-web spider in the Atracidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1918 by Australian arachnologists William Joseph Rainbow and Robert Henry Pulleine. The specific epithet valida means ‘true’ or ‘valid’.{{cite web |url= https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/fd9d90b8-3dbc-4834-9621-b3d2de9a453c |title= Species Hadronyche valida (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) |author= |date=2022|website= Australian Faunal Directory |publisher=Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia |access-date= 2023-05-11}}
Distribution and habitat
The species occurs in the border ranges of north-eastern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland, where it inhabits closed and open forest habitats.
Behaviour
The spiders construct burrows, especially beneath logs, the entrances to which are lined and extended with silk. They are terrestrial predators of invertebrates and small vertebrates.
References
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Category:Endemic fauna of Australia
Category:Arthropods of New South Wales
Category:Arachnids of Queensland
Category:Spiders described in 1918
Category:Taxa named by William Joseph Rainbow
Category:Taxa named by Robert Henry Pulleine
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