The Brazilian wandering spiders (Phoneutria spp.), Armed spiders ("aranhas armadeiras", as they are known in Portuguese) or banana spiders (not to be confused with the relatively harmless species of the genus Nephila) are a genus of aggressive and highly venomous spiders found in tropical South and Central America.
The Brazilian wandering spiders appear in the Guinness Book of World Records 2007 for the most venomous animal
Phoneutria not only has a potent neurotoxin, but is reported to have one of the most excruciatingly painful envenomations of all spiders due to its high concentration of serotonin.
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