funnel-web spider

English

a funnel-web spider in its web

Noun

funnel-web spider (plural funnel-web spiders)

1. Any spider of the families Atracidae, Macrothelidae, and Macrothelidae, all of which weave funnel-shaped webs (formerly placed in Hexathalidae).

Hyponyms

• (spider that weaves funnel-shaped web): araneomorph funnel-web spider (Agelenidae, funnel weaver); Australian funnel-web spider (Atracidae)

Coordinate terms

• cobweb spider (Theridiidae), purseweb spider (Atypidae), scaffold web spider (Nesticidae), pan-web spider (Cyrtophora exanthematica, in Araneidae), tube-web spider (Segestriidae), orb-web spider (Araneidae)

Derived terms

• Port Macquarie funnel-web spider
• sheet funnel-web spider (dwarf tarantula, Mecicobothriidae)

See also

• funnel-web tarantula (Dipluridae, Nemesiidae)

References

• funnel-web spider on Wikipedia.Wikipedia