False funnel-web

Fact Box Species: Aname species (QM) perhaps Aname barrema or a related species Previous species name: Chenistonia or Dekana species Family: Nemesiidae, formerly Dipluridae Body length: female: 28 mm male: 23 mm Habitat: This species constructs a burrow in open forest locations; no extensive or distinctive webbing is found at the burrow entrance, which therefore is often confused with a worm hole; in some districts these burrows can be found in quite large numbers Toxicity: Uncertain; males sometimes enter human habitations during the breeding season and should be treated as hazardous although few, if any, bitings are on record

The female The male Male spurs, palps a different male? Under different male Burrow entrance

The male has a distinctive spur and megaspine on the tibia if the first leg as well as a metatarsus (the next segment of the leg) that is shaped like a meat cleaver. The tube on the male tarsal bulb may be relatively short and is only slightly curved. Most males are collected in spring.

Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Arbanitis species, Namea salanitri, and Misgolas pulchellus.