Biology:Phoneutria reidyi

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Short description: Species of spider

Phoneutria reidyi
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Phoneutria
Species:
P. reidyi
Binomial name
Phoneutria reidyi
(F.O. P-Cambridge, 1897)[1]

Phoneutria reidyi is a species of venomous spiders in the family Ctenidae, found in South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil and Guyana).[1]

This species is characterized by a double dark dorsal band on the palp, white spots in the abdominal dorsal pattern, the female anterior legs ventrally have a yellow femur, while in males it is very dark.[2] Like other Phoneutria, P. reidyi is venomous and should be treated with caution, its venom has a median lethal dose of 0.11 mg / kg.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Taxon details Phoneutria reidyi (F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897)", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/8086, retrieved 2017-04-27 
  2. Bucaretchi, Fábio; Bertani, Rogério; De Capitani, Eduardo Mello; Hyslop, Stephen (2018), Vogel, Carl-Wilhelm; Seifert, Steven A.; Tambourgi, Denise V., eds., "Envenomation by Wandering Spiders (Genus Phoneutria)" (in en), Clinical Toxinology in Australia, Europe, and Americas, Toxinology (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands): pp. 101–154, doi:10.1007/978-94-017-7438-3_63, ISBN 978-94-017-7438-3, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7438-3_63, retrieved 2020-10-30 
  3. Comparison of LD 50 (mg/kg) of spiders of the genus Phoneutria for different prey types – via ResearchGate.

Wikidata ☰ Q2571248 entry