In research released Monday, scientists from the Australian Museum, Flinders University and Germany's Leibniz Institute discovered there are three species of Sydney funnel-web spiders instead of one.

These are the homes of the Porongurup trapdoor (Cataxia sp.), a shy brown spider that grows to about 4cm long, with a dark body and light brown legs. The Porongurup trapdoors are charming architects ...

[and] fluted ridges on setae on the legs" similar to the Barychelidae family (brush-footed trapdoor spiders), specifically the Monodontium genus. Although the body length is relatively short at ...

One particularly noteworthy exception was documented in the North Bungulla Reserve in southwestern Australia, where a trapdoor spider–a common ... often brown or gray, which help them blend ...