Definition of atrax:
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a genus of venomous Australian funnel web spiders that was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1877 from the type species Atrax robustus.
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In Greek mythology, Atrax was believed to have been the founder and eponym of Atrax or Atracia, a city in ancient Thessaly.
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Atrax (or ἌτραγοςSupplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 34.560.3 ) or Ἄτρακοϛ) or Atracia was a Perrhaebian town in ancient Thessaly, described by Livy as situated above the river Peneius, at the distance of about from Larissa.