Atrax

Atrax
	Female Atrax robustus (Sydney funnel-web spider)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Atracidae
Genus:	Atrax; O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877
Type species
	A. robustus; O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877
Species
	A. robustus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 – Australia (New South Wales); A. sutherlandi Gray, 2010 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria); A. yorkmainorum Gray, 2010 – Australia (New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory);
Synonyms
	Poikilomorpha Rainbow, 1914;

Atrax is a genus of venomous Australian funnel web spiders that was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1877 from the type species Atrax robustus. As of May 2019 it contains only three species: A. robustus, A. sutherlandi, and A. yorkmainorum. Originally placed with the curtain web spiders, it was moved to the Hexathelidae in 1980, then to the Australian funnel-web spiders in 2018.

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