ID PLEASE! Funnel web spider!

[Jetzie]

Just got a spider from my friend, labelled as Taiwanese Funnelweb. well.. i wud like to double comfirm as well as know the latin name of it.

here is it.

 

[Steven]

maybe Macrothele ? dunno :?

 

[Venom]

That would be my guess also. It somewhat resembles Macrothele calpeiania:


http://www.oeko-msc.de/mygal-en.html

http://giantspiders.com/article11.html

 

[Crotalus]

That would be my guess also. It somewhat resembles Macrothele calpeiania:


http://www.oeko-msc.de/mygal-en.html

http://giantspiders.com/article11.html

Which are a european species, M. gigas is a taiwanese species though.

/Lelle

 

[Steven]

Which are a european species, M. gigas is a taiwanese species though.

/Lelle

so is Macrothele taiwanensis and those are alot smaller.

 

[kean]

funnel web Spiders are venomous right??

 

[Crotalus]

funnel web Spiders are venomous right??

Only the australian funnel webs are dangerous

/Lelle

 

[TarantuChimp]

This is going to sound reeaaaly dumb, but has anyone ever come on here having an A.Robutus??? any austrialian users must find them in good supply as loads of people keep Lactrodectus species in the states?

 

[Randolph XX()]

definately not M.gigas, which has red chalicera
might be M.taiwanensis