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Tarantula is the common name with which we actually refer to many different species of spider, united by considerable size and a very painful bite.The term tarantula could derive from the province of Taranto, a place where the Lycosa tarantula has always been widespread, also famous with the nickname of wolf spider. It is from here that the explorers who arrived in the new continent would have taken the definition to classify all the large spiders found beyond the ocean, generating that common imagination of a big and hairy arachnid.