They are named for their funnel-shaped webs, which open wide at the mouth of the tube.
It is identified by its prominent red stripe or hourglass-shaped mark on its black-coloured back.
The spider’s appearance is distinguished from other widow spiders by its reddish cephalothorax.
They are named for their wolflike habit of chasing and pouncing on prey.
They range in body length from 3 to 15 mm and build silken tubes under stones, in leaves, or in grass.
They have an aggressive defence posture, in which they raise their front legs straight up into the air.
Its venom destroys the walls of blood vessels near the site of the bite.