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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 ...
Edwards earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Entomology from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1971. [2] While in undergraduate school, he worked in the Entomology Department as a part-time curator of the arachnid collection developed by Martin H. Muma, which provided him his first opportunity to examine many kinds of identified spiders.
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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 ]
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The Satan tarantula can reach just under two inches in length, the study said. It has eight eyes, eight legs covered in “golden” hair and “long” “fringe” on its face. Photos show the ...