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Amazonian Wandering Spider

Phoneutria fera

Classification

Order
Araneae
Family
Ctenidae

Phoneutria fera is a species of spider with medically significant venom in the family Ctenidae found in South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname, and Guyana). It is commonly known as the Brazilian wandering spider and the banana spider, although these names are applied to other species in the genus Phoneutria, particularly Phoneutria nigriventer. P.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 108