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Trapdoor spider is a common name that is used to refer to various spiders from several different groups that create burrows with a silk-hinged trapdoor to help them ambush prey. Several families within the infraorder Mygalomorphae contain trapdoor spiders: Actinopodidae, a family otherwise known as 'mouse-spiders', in South America and Australia
Each burrow has two or three entrances that lead into a main tube. The trapdoor is a form of safety and ways of ambushing prey. Idiopidae adapt and live in many various environments as seen by the map on the far right, which leads to the various species to co-exist with other Idiopidae and other spiders outside of the family. [4]
Nemesiidae are relatively large spiders with robust legs and a body that is nearly three times as long as it is wide. They are darkly colored, brown to black, though some have silvery hairs on their carapace. [5] Atmetochilus females can grow over 4 centimetres (1.6 in) long. They live in burrows, often with a hinged trapdoor.
Idiops is a genus of armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Josef Anton Maximilian Perty in 1833. [6] It is the type genus of the spurred trapdoor spiders, Idiopidae . Idiops is also the most species-rich genus of the family, and is found at widely separated locations in the Neotropics , Afrotropics , Indomalaya and the Middle ...
Fagilde's trapdoor spider (Nemesia berlandi) or buraqueira-de-Fagilde in Portuguese, is a trapdoor spider of the family Nemesiidae, [2] currently only known from Fagilde and the adjacent village of Vila Garcia, [3] both in the Mangualde municipality of the Beira Alta region of Portugal, in the isolated slopes of the Dão River valley.
Blakistonia aurea, also known as the Adelaide trapdoor spider or the yellow trapdoor spider, is a species of mygalomorph spider in the Idiopidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1902 by British arachnologist Henry Roughton Hogg. [1] [2]
The Torreya trap-door spider (Cyclocosmia torreya) is a species of spider in the family Halonoproctidae. [2] It is endemic to the United States , [ 2 ] and hitherto only known from along the Apalachicola River in Florida .
Moggridgea rainbowi, also called the Australian trapdoor spider, [3] is a small spider endemic to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. The spider was first recorded in 1919. The spider was first recorded in 1919.