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Brazilian Wandering Spider
Phoneutria fera
Phoneutria fera is a species of spider in the family Ctenidae found in South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname and Guyana). It is commonly known as the Brazilian wandering spider as well as the banana spider, although these names are applied to other species in the genus Phoneutria, particularly Phoneutria nigriventer.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 53390.