Lampona cylindrata (Lam-cy) = white tailed spider
Vergleich: Siehe: Spinnen
Biss: localised burning, stinging feeling followed by
various illnesses. Itchy lumps, swelling, blistering, ulceration, nausea,
vomiting, diarrhoea.
Allergic reactions/large welts/bad deformities/blisters.
Symptoms
1. The bite produces a clearly
visible puncture mark/mild sting to sharp pain of short duration, itchiness,
local swelling or a lump and no systemic symptoms or anxiety.
2. The bite can cause a local
burning pain sometimes followed by blistering and ulceration, however the
symptoms have no predictable pattern.
3. The speed of tissue damage and of
other symptoms varies widely. Ulcerations may begin with surface blistering or
with a darkening of the flesh beneath the bite.
Reaction can be either rapid and
painful with violent vomiting and diarrhoea or gradual with relatively little
pain.
4. If necrosis occures
(1. cutaneous blistering and inflammation, 2.
cyanotic lesions, 3. substantial recurrent local tissue necrosis with a deep
rolled ulcer
involving fat and skin and exposing
muscle.)
First aid: An amino acid L-cysteine ointment can counteract the necrotic effect of the venom. Aloe vera in ointment or fresh leaf form can also greatly help to neutralise the effects of the bite, if it is applied generously over the wound 3 - 4x daily until healing occurs. (Lucilla sericata).
Vergiftung: Rötung, Schwellung über Stunden bis Tage; Jucken, Brennen; öfters nekrotische Ulzeration (Heilung braucht 10 t. – Monate (Superinfektion);
(auch später wieder auftretende Blasen + Ulcerabildung);
Übelkeit, Erbrechen; Kopfschmerz, Fieber, Kälteschauer;
[Alistair Gray]
The species carries the virus Microbacterius ulcerans and although no deaths are known to have occurred
from it's bite, there are recent reported cases of slow healing ulcers,
persisting at the site of the bite. A vaccine has been developed in Queensland
currently.
For example a White Tailed spider may feed on a black house spider from
which it has lured from it's retreat by imitating the vibrations of the black
house spider's entangled prey.
www.maroondaah.vic.gov.au
The White Tailed spider has been found in Australia for many years, this
spider is easily identified by it's elongated shape, cylindrical lemon pip
shaped abdomen, and it's velvety black and dirty white markings at the top of
the abdomen and tip of the tail. The legs are glossy with a reddish dark tint.
Male spiders have dark legs.
White Tailed spiders only bite if provoked and are not normally
aggressive to humans. The symptoms of the spider bite vary according to
specific reactions, including localised burning, stinging feeling followed by
various illnesses: Itchy lumps, swelling, blistering, ulceration, nausea,
vomiting.
Occasionally the bacteria on the fangs of the spider may cause infection
or other specific allergic reactions. And it is suspected of causing skin
necrosis in 14 spider bites over the last 10 years.
However until recently none of the victims could positively identify
exactly what bit them.
The bite is believed to cause severe illness of a short duration,
although the portion of venom containing flesh dissolving enzymes would fit on
the head of a pin. The illness is sometimes followed by necrotic sores. The
species carries the virus Microbacterius ulcerans in it's venom, and it is this microscopic organism
that seems to cause the infection resulting in the spread of ulcerous sores.
The bite is not lethal, but is dangerous;
Negativ:
1. Visual disturbances
2. Sensitive to water, noise, the sound of water, music, smell acute
3. Heightened senses (smell heightened)
4. Hates water and hates colours.
6. Long and squashed
7. Impatient, irritable, snappy, yelling.
8. Desolation, alone, home isolated from family/"I can't be
bothered, I don't want any people".
9. Hatred of customers
10. Elation,
11. Lots of sudden things (elation/desire for sleep).
12. The desire to steal things/desire to kill,
13. Hurried Rushed too fast (with customer service),
15. Not coping. "not happy, not me, not coping".
16. Impaired intellectual function, clarity
17. Focused
18. Mistakes
19. Addiction, wants to take more money, gambling,
20. Injustice to children
21. Feeling feminine, feeling beautiful,
22. Feels attacked by people, spiritually,
24. Confidence, attraction, telling people what she thinks,
25. I can do things, defiance, taking things against instruction,
26. More awake, more active, very active, cleaning, organising,
vacuuming, very efficient, very elated, I feel amazed.
27. Generally alert and focused becoming tired and falling apart,
28. Difficulty sleeping, > talking, walking, sex, > chocolate,
sweets (ice cream/chocolate)
30. His life long love of being of service to people was entirely
annihilated, he felt agitation and hatred, before he felt god will reward me.
On proving "I want the reward now, give me the reward" before
impotent now strong desire for sex.
32. Cured symptoms, menstrual symptoms and want of self confidence.
33. Needs attention, feels as if he is being ignored,
34. Crawling nostril
35. Metallic Taste
36. Heart palpitations/heart sinking
38. Abdominal sensations l. to r.
39. Calves
40. Problems with calf muscles, problems with the buttocks.
41. Head aches
42. Skin colour changes (face yellow)
44. Muscle relaxation,
45. Pimples, nausea, cold, wind all around her,
47. Bubbles in the phlegm, blocked nose, acute sharp smells.
48. Bruises
[JJ Kleber]
Sind nächtliche Jäger.
Viele plötzlich eintretende Empfindungen [Abneigung/Begehren (sexuell/Sachen/Kleptomanie) mit dem Wunsch alles sofort zu bekommen] ohne jede Reflexion; wird ungeduldig und reizbar, wenn nicht gleich bekommt was er will. Wenn sich angegriffen fühlt, sofortige extreme Gegenreaktion (bis Wunsch zu Töten); auch plötzliche Abneigung bis Hassgefühle (Menschen/Farben/Gerüche).
Ungeduldig/reizbar/ruhelos/braucht Aufmerksamkeit, „Wie isoliert“ von Familie, möchte alleine sein (anti-sozial), aber unglücklich da sich isoliert fühlt;
„Wie verhext o. verzaubert zu sein“/“Als ob Körper dem Kopf nicht gehorcht“; starke Zukunfts-/Krankheitsangst, unentschlossen mit dem Gefühl mit zu viel Entscheidungen belastet zu sein; wie alle Spinne überempfindliche Sinne (Geruchssinn); Jucken mit Empfindlichkeit der Körperhaare; beim Essen sowohl Hunger, wie mangelnder Appetit, aber immer ohne Interesse, ohne Spaß am Essen, ohne Essensvorlieben.
>: Bewegung + Aktivität (gehen, tanzen, singen);
Repertory: [Alistair Gray]
Mind: abrupt
alert
anger [hearing music/at pain/from sound of water/colours (< red)/with
crying from pain/with himself]
anxiety (exaggerated/about family/about own health/with
palpitations/with sensation of lump in throat/> walking)
busy
calmness
mental symptoms > chocolate/> cleaning/> coffee
aversion to blue/red/yellow
company, aversion to
concentration difficult
confidence want of self
confusion - „As (after) being intoxicated“
confusion of mind
courageous
> dancing/desires it/behaviour
death desires
defiance
delusion - is alone/animal in abdomen/will be bitten/skin is black/will
die/floating in water/someone did grasp his neck/is ignored/will become
insane/things seems too long/things happen in slow motion/is neglected/objects
move to quickly/of being poisoned/hears rain at night/body is smaller/omeone has put a spell on him/is squashed/time passes too
slowly/time passes too quickly/time seems earlier, passes quickly/under
superhuman control/despair with pains/despair from sexual craving/sense of
direction improved
eating > mental symptoms
elation (from walking)
estranged from her family/ignores his friends and relatives
fastidious
fear - alone/of driving/something (bad/unpleasant) will happen/to go
home/insanity/noise of rushing water/of panic attacks/being poisoned/poverty/of
robbers
fight, wants to
forgetful (of well known streets/thinking of something)
forsaken feeling
giggling
heedless
high spirited
homesick
hurry (everybody moves too slowly/walking)
impatience (everything goes too slow)/impatient
impulsive
industrious, mania for work
irresolute
irritable (hearing or seeing/during headache/everything goes too slow)
kill - desire to/impulse to
kleptomania
laughter
laziny morning
loquacious
loses way in well known streets
memory wanting
mistakes - in calculating/of perception
misunderstands what has seen or heard
mood - impatient/impulsive
>/< music - aversed/irritates/sensitive
to
> singing
news, depressing or sad, after
> occupation
perception slow
praying
premonition
prophesying
quiet, wants to be
rash
cannot rest until everything is on it rightful
place
restless
sad
senses acute (for birds)
sensitive - to noise splashing water/to music
sighing
sounds exaggerated
spaced out feeling
speech, finish sentence, cannot
steal, desire to
suicidal disposition/thinks of
superstitious
sympathy - compassion
> talking
< thinking of pain
time passes too quickly (appears shorter)/too slowly (appears
longer)/passes to quickly, appears
tranquillity
> walking/quickly
Head: band, constriction, tension (band or hoop)/in
forehead (over the eyes)/in occiput/>/< bending
forward
Cutting in l. temple
Sensation of formication
occiput „As if occiput
frozen“
fuzzy
pain grasping [forehead (> eating)]
headache (boring r. temple)/“As if by a pressing band“/sharp
light headedness
heaviness (in l. temple/in sides/on rising)/“As if heaviness“ in
forehead/temples
pain many
pulsating in occiput in evening
tension, drawing upward of skin of forehead
tingling
weakness
Eye: burning
Discharges - in morning/mucus pus (in canthi/sticky/white)
Red/yellow
ecchymosis
heat in
heaviness (lids)/“As if heaviness“ (in eyelids)
lachrymation when yawning
lids puffy
pain - burning/>/< closing/light (artificial/strong)
photophobia < artificial light
tension
Vision: acute
Blurry/cloudy/unable to focus
hallucinogenic
Nose: „As if crawling“
Discharge - running/thick/white
obstructed
Smell: acute/sensitive
Ear: noises - r./l.< noise/of hammering
sounds/whistling/aching/stitching
Hearing: acute/exaggerated
Face: congested
bluish circles around eyes/purple/red flushes/spots/yellow
lips - dry/cracked
eruption - acne/dry/pimples
(flushes of) heat
pain . in cheek/neuralgic/< touch
Mouth: dry (lips)
sides red/bluish tongue/red edges of ness
tongue/red tipp of tongue
heat/“As if hot“
pain - burning (> cold air/palate/on tongue l./on tip of tongue)/on
tongue
taste - acute/bitter/metallic/sour
ulcer - (on tipp of tongue) Tipp
wart (lip)
Throat: dry < swallowing
Mucous - difficult to detach/red as blood/taste metallic/tenacious
„As if mucous in it“
pain - r./burning/sore ext. ears/swallowing
scratching on swallowing
swelling/“As if swollen“
External throat: „As if someone grasped it“
induration of glands
pain in general cervical glands (< touch)
swelling in cervical glands
Stomach: „As if something alive“
Appetite - diminished/increased (after eating/in
morning)/insatiable/ravenous (eating increases the hunger)/thirst
Distention (< eating)
Emptiness (> eructations/not > eating)
Fullness /“As if full“
Heaviness (morning/afternoon)
itching
nausea [< coffee/after drinking (< milk)/< eating/from
exercising/thinking of food/during menses/on rising/during sleep/> after
stool]
pain (aching/burning/cramping/gnawing/tearing)/painful
Abdomen: „As if something alive“/“As if stopped“
Distention (> diarrhoea)
emptiness
heaviness
itching
movements felt (l./while walking)
noises (like crying of an animal/rumbling)
pain (cramping > flatus)/iliac region (fossa)/pressing/stitching/tearing)
rumbling
tension,
Rectum: constipation/difficult stool (insufficient
incomplete)
diarrhoea
flatus
pain - (<) burning during stool agg during
urging
Stool: loose/thin/unsatisfactory/watery/yellow
Bladder: urination involuntary (incontinence at night)
Kidney: pain - > lying on knees and elbows
pain pressing (in region of kidneys)
Urethra: pain burning < during/after micturition
Urine: colour greenish (dark)
Male organs: pain in testes l./on sitting
sexual desire increased (morning)/decreased
Female organs: fullness (vagina)
Menses - profuse at night/clotted/milky/pale watery/stringy/scanty/tenacious
sexual desire increased
Larynx and trachea: tickling
Respiration: difficult in daytime/inspiration/during
palpitation/with suffocation
Expectoraation: viscid
Chest: eruptions pimples
„As if heart is grabbed“
itching in clavicle
noises, crunching
„As if open“
pain - l. (ext.back/ext. shoulder)/aching in mammae/burning in lungs/dull in region of heart/>/<
pressure/in sternum
palpitation - in heart [with anxiety (during deep inspiration)]
„As if heart sinking“
tingling
Neck: pain
tension
Back: eruptions - pimples in cervical region
Pain [aching/cervical (l./ext. shoulders/“As if grasped“)/l.
(rheumatic)/lumbar region (l./crushed)/ext. lower extremities/<
motion/sitting/sore/< standing/stitching]
Palpitation in neck
Perspiration in cervical region
Stiffness (in cervical region)
Tension in dorsal region
Extremitties: cold, icy
Cramping in lower limbs
blue lower limbs
eruptions - pimples thigh/r. foot/r. palm of hand
itching - ankles/(in) between fingers (< scratching)/lower limbs
(foot/heel)/>/< scratching
lump forearm
numbness (arms/legs/while sitting)
pain [aching (feet/lower limbs/wrist)/elbow/hand/lower limbs
(shins)/shooting (l.) elbow/shoulder/must stretch/twitching in thigh/<
touch]
perspiration in flexure of elbows
restless lower limbs
stiff
swelling - ankles/wrist
tingling (elbow)
weak (hands/thighs)
weary
Sleep: generals - lassitude/weakness
Restless
Sleepy (afternoon/overpowering/and weary/yawning)
Sleepless - from anxiety/from itching/from thoughts
unrefreshing
waking [from dreams/frequent from noise/“As from fright“/after midnight
(3 h. - 4 h.)/“As if slept ones fill“/with desire to urinate/with pain]
yawning,
Dream: anger/large black birds/dogs/anxious
morning/clairvoyance/concerned/out of control/country/crime/dancing/danger/devil/disease/driving
car/fever/fights/
playing games/happy/high places/hot weather/open
houses/intoxicated/invasion of her space/lewd/lascivious/black men/murder/will
be murdered/mutilation/
nakedness/open spaces/pain/plants/pursued/those in need
rescuing/robbers/romance/rooms/sand/shocking/spaceship/stealing
fruit/stool/swords/of having committed
theft/thirsty/toilets/urinating/vertigo/violence/is
vulnerable/wedding(s)/windows broken
Chill: Lack of vital heat/chill, coldness
Skin: coldness
Blackish/dark/yellow
Eruptions - pimples (white after scratching)
Itching (< after bathing)
sensitive
Generals: activity - desires it/physical
> open air
Foods and drinks: Desires: chocolate/sweets; >: chocolate/sweets;
<: alcohol/tea;
clumsiness
coldness of whole body/“As if icy cold“
energy lots of
fullness internally
> eating
flushes of heat/“As if hot“/vital lack of heat
heaviness - external/internal/“As if heavy“ tired legs
lassitude
„As if light“
> rapid motion/> rubbing
senses hyper acute
> talking
walking - >/desires it
wave-like sensations
weak/weary
Allerlei:
[Alistair Gray]
The information listed and collated here about the White Tailed Spider
is selected from a number of books and web sites. www.ento.csiro.au
There are a number of Lampona spider species and the
White Tailed spider Lampona cylindrata is often described as Lampona obscena.
The White Tailed spider preys on snare making spiders and insects.
The White Tailed spider is not lethal but can cause systemic symptoms,
such as headache, vomiting, nausea, diarrhoea, muscular pains, chills.
The Puffin Book of Australian Spiders – Hunt 1982. There are a number of
different kinds of White Tailed spiders. The common species seen in the houses
of Australia [and now New Zealand] are Lampona cylindrata. This tells you about the nature of it's body,
it is cylindrical. The female can be between 14-21mm long and the male about
12mm long. Young White Tailed spiders are black on their back White on the
abdomen and as they moult throughout their life they become darker until only
the White Tailed is left.
They are considered to be vagrant spiders meaning that they wander about
at night. During the daytime they rest in silk tubes under bark, stones or
logs. The silk tube is also used to enclose the females eggs and she stays
close by until the eggs hatch. The spiders lay only about 20 eggs and many of
the young ones survive.
A guide to Australian Spiders by Kline 1969. Lampona
are small medium size spiders with dark cylindrical bodies sometimes having
White stripes on the abdomen, there are 16 species that are wide spread. The
legs are short, prograde and usually shiny often
reddish. These nocturnal hunters are found by day under bark, stones and leaf
litter, sometimes with a tubular silken retreat.
Dangerous Australian Spiders 1998. The White Tailed spider is 11/2 cm
long and has a long body, it does not have a nest but roams in search of it's
food. It hunts other spiders during the night but stays in the silk sack during
the day. The sack is also used as a nest. In the bush it is found under bark or
in the leaf litter. When it wanders into a house
it will usually be seen at the top of a wall, and it also crawls into
clothes that are left on the floor. Very little research has been done on White
Tailed spiders, but it is thought that these spider bites can cause severe skin
damage. A bite from a White Tailed spider causes skin around the bite to die,
this may start with blisters, or the skin becoming
a darker colour. It is very painful, and a person who is bitten may also
experience vomiting and diarrhoea. A person bitten by a White Tailed spider
needs hospitalised treatment. The dead skin is often needing to be scraped away
and replaced with skin from another part of the body.
The Silken Web, The History of Australian Spiders 1994 Simon-Brunet. The
female Lampona cylindrata
one of the largest Lampona spiders measures up to
20mm in body length, with the slimmer male measuring about 12mm. This species
is dark plum coloured to black, depending on it's age, and recency
of moulting. It's legs may be reddish brown to black depending on it's age. The
colouring and patterns darken with successive moults. Its abdomen is glossy and
pitted at the adult stage and has an outstanding patch at the dorsal tip of its
abdomen. Juveniles have double series of light patches on the dorsal surface of
their abdomen which deepen with every moult until they disappear altogether
leaving only the distinctive white tail in the adult.
The White Tailed spider preys on snare making spiders. During the
evening it positions itself on the outer edges of the web of the snare builder
and plucks and strums the thread to imitate the struggling of an ensnared
insect. It makes an enthusiastic appearance and rushes forward expecting to
have captured an insect, but instead is attacked
and eaten.
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