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Manas Ghosh ¹, Supratick Chakrabortty ¹, Bhaskar Mahanayak ², Kaushik Ghosh ¹, Sankar Talukdar ³

Affiliations
1 Department of General Medicine, Murshidabad Medical College, West Bengal, IN
2 Department of Zoology, Berhampore Girls College, West Bengal, IN
3 Arachnida Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, IN

Abstract

Spider species those are important for causing health related hazards, are different from continent to continent and even from country to country. Loxosceles species and Latrodectus species bites are common in South and North America are as Latrodectus species and Latrodectus hasselti bites are common in Africa and Australia respectively. In India spider bite, though common in clinical practice, but still inadequately reported. Though a large number of spider bites seemas harmless, our experience in clinical practice differs in most of the cases. Lack of large studies and few case reports from this part of the world, results in inadequate experience in dealing symptomatic bites. Here we report a middle aged housewife from the eastern part of India who comes to us with gradually progressive local inflammation after a spider bite. Her local inflammation rapidly spread in spite of conservative managements with NSAIDS, local agents, and steroids and only responds on adding Dapsone to the regimen. We confirm the spider as a species of Tarantula of genera chilobrachys with the help of Zoology department and share our experience as a successful treatment of rare an envenomation.

Keywords

Spider Bite, Tarantula, India.

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Sankar Talukdar ¹, Tridip Kumar Datta ²

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India PRANIVIGYAN BHAVAN, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, IN
2 Vidyasagar College, Kolkata 700006, IN

Abstract

Studies on feeding behaviour of Araneid spiders from India were available with Tikader (1961, 1982), Kumar et al. (1977), published a note on dragonflies caught in spider web. Recently Majumder (2001), Talukdar and Majumder (2006, 2007 and 2008), Majumder and Talukdar (2006) and Talukdar (2008) did some interesting observation on food and feeding behaviour of four Araneid species of the genus Argiope and Neoscona belong to family Araneidae, genus Leucauge belongs to family Tetragnthidae and genus Pholcus belongs to family Pholsidae from West Bengal.

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Sankar Talukdar ¹

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, IN

Abstract

Information on feeding behavior of Pholcid spider from Bortibeel, a potential wetland in the history of Gangatic estuarine system in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal is lacking. Studies on feeding behaviors of areneid spiders from: India were available with Tikader (1961,1982). Majumder (2001).

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