Phoneutria is a genus of spiders in the family Ctenidae. They are mainly found in northern South America, with one species in Central America.[2] Members of the genus are commonly referred to as Brazilian wandering spiders.[3] Other English names include armed spiders (armadeiras in Brazilian Portuguese) and banana spiders (a name shared with several others).
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considered medically significant, only to be recanted. Only ten genera (Phoneutria, Atrax, Latrodectus, Loxosceles, Sicarius, Hexophthalma, Hadronyche, Illawarra...
America, and on some Caribbean islands. Unlike the dangerously venomous Phoneutria, bites from these spiders typically have only minor effects on humans...
neurotoxic venoms. Effective antivenoms exist for Latrodectus, Atrax, and Phoneutria venom. Antivenom in the United States is in intravenous form but is rarely...
Brazil, between 2007 and 2010, 18 deaths from Phoneutria nigriventer were registered, only in Brazil, Phoneutria fera is restricted to the Amazon and does...
Kalapothakis, Evanguedes; Guatimosim, Cristina; Prado, Marco A. M. (2002). "Phoneutria nigriventer Venom: A Cocktail of Toxins That Affect Ion Channels". Cellular...
smaller. The male and female holotypes were originally identified as Phoneutria fasciata when they were first described by Lenz in 1886. In 1889, Eugène...
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funnel-web spiders (Atrax and Hadronyche spp.) Brazilian wandering spiders (Phoneutria spp.) All widow spiders (Latrodectus spp.), including the black widows...
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erection induced in vivo by a purified toxin from the Brazilian spider Phoneutria nigriventer", British Journal of Urology International, 102 (7): 835–837...
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