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Atypidae, also known as atypical tarantulas or purseweb spiders, is a spider family containing only three genera. They are accomplished ambush predators that spend most of their time in a sock-like, silken retreat on the ground from where they kill their prey.
Atypus, also called purseweb spiders, is a genus of atypical tarantulas first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1804. [3] It occurs in Eurasia, with one species (A. affinis) reaching into North Africa. [1] Only three of the described species occur in Europe: A. piceus, A. affinis, and A. muralis. [1]
This page lists all described species of the spider family Atypidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of December 2020: [1] Atypus. Atypus. Atypus affinis ...
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“The majority of the spiders cause us no harm and are predators of pests,” says entomologist Roberto M. Pereira, Ph.D., an insect research scientist with the University of Florida. Translation ...
This group of spiders comprises mostly heavy-bodied, stout-legged spiders including tarantulas, Australian funnel-web spiders, mouse spiders, and various families of spiders commonly called trapdoor spiders. Like the "primitive" suborder of spiders Mesothelae, they have two pairs of book lungs, and downward-pointing chelicerae. Because of this ...
Antrodiaetidae, also known as folding trapdoor spiders or folding-door spiders, is a small spider family related to atypical tarantulas. They are found almost exclusively in the western and midwestern United States, from California to Washington and east to the Appalachian Mountains . [ 1 ]
The fear of spiders and the subsequent panic upon spotting them can cause costly distractions while driving. In 2017, a Florida spider was the alleged culprit of a woman crashing her car in South ...