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.

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