Sutherland S K
Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Melbourne, Victoria.
Aust Fam Physician. 1990 Jan;19(1):47, 50-61, 64.
Most Australian spiders are capable of causing bites that produce some degree of local injury and occasionally systemic effects. To date, only the Sydney funnel-web spider, which is limited to an area with a 160 kilometre radius from the centre of Sydney, and the female red-back spider, which is found in all states, have been documented as causing deaths. The evidence is mounting that various other species must be considered potentially dangerous.
大多数澳大利亚蜘蛛都能造成咬伤，产生一定程度的局部损伤，偶尔还会引发全身反应。迄今为止，只有悉尼漏斗网蜘蛛（其分布范围局限于距悉尼市中心半径160公里的区域）和红背蜘蛛（在澳大利亚所有州均有发现）被记录有致人死亡的案例。越来越多的证据表明，其他多种蜘蛛也必须被视为具有潜在危险性。
