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Most spiders in this family build trapdoor burrows. For example, the 20 millimetres (0.79 in) long Sipalolasma builds its burrow in rotted wood, with a hinged trapdoor at each end. The 10 millimetres (0.39 in) long Idioctis builds its burrow approximately 5 centimetres (2.0 in) deep, just below the high tide level, sealing the opening with a ...
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
Ctenizidae (/ ˈ t ə n ɪ z ə d iː / tə-NIZZ-ə-dee) [2] is a small family of mygalomorph spiders that construct burrows with a cork-like trapdoor made of soil, vegetation, and silk. . They may be called trapdoor spiders, as are other, similar species, such as those of the families Liphistiidae, Barychelidae, and Cyrtaucheniidae, and some species in the Idiopidae and Nemesiid
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 ...
Aptostichus bonoi, or Bono's Joshua Tree trapdoor spider, is a morphological species of Euctenizidae spiders, nocturnal arthropods who seize their prey after leaping out of their burrows and inject it with venom. [1] The species was found in Joshua Tree National Park, [2] California, and described by the Auburn University professor Jason Bond ...
Idiosoma is a genus of Australian armoured trapdoor spiders that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1871. [3] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the armoured trapdoor spiders in 1985. [4]
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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 ...