Porrhothele antipodiana

Porrhothele antipodiana
Conservation status
Not Threatened (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Porrhothelidae
Genus:	Porrhothele
Species:	P. antipodiana
Binomial name
Porrhothele antipodiana (Walckenaer, 1837)
Synonyms
Mygale antipodiana Walckenaer,1837 Mygale quoyi Lucas,1849 Mygale antipodum White,1849 Mygale hexops White,1849 Hexops whitei Ausserer,1871 Macrothele huttonii O.Pickard-Cambridge,1873 Macrothele insignipes Simon,1891 Nemesia kirkii Urquhart,1894 Arbanitis kirkii Hogg,1918 Porrhothele simoni Hogg,1901 Porrhothele avocae Todd,1945

Porrhothele antipodiana, the black tunnelweb spider, is a species of mygalomorph spider that lives in New Zealand. It is the most common and widespread of several species in the genus Porrhothele, and is especially common in the greater Wellington region where the vagrant mature males are often encountered in or around dwellings. This species is one of New Zealand's most studied spiders.^[1] In New Zealand, the common name "tunnelweb spider" is also often used to refer to members of the genus Hexathele. Neither should be confused with their distant relatives, the highly venomous Australian funnel-web spiders (family Atracidae).