Atrax infensus

Atrax infensus V Males attracted to hidden females Flickman, 1964... 

Purse-web spiders (Atypidae) capture their prey through the walls of a silk tube, thus hiding from the environment. Males stopped wandering around on sites from which female silk tubes had been removed (Coyle and Shear, 1981), suggesting a contact sex pheromone. However, the response could have been evoked by remnants of the silk tube. In the Hexathelidae, male Atrax infensus were attracted by volatiles from females, and this behavior was exploited to trap males, using traps with hidden females (Hickman, 1964). 

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