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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
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
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 Mygalomorphae, or mygalomorphs, are an infraorder of spiders, and comprise one of three major groups of living spiders with over 3,000 species, found on all continents except Antarctica. Many members are known as trapdoor spiders due to their creation of trapdoors over their burrows.
They are small to large spiders with little to no hair and build burrows with a trapdoor. [1] Some species live in tree fern stems. They have a Gondwanan distribution, found almost exclusively on the Southern Hemisphere, occurring in South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. [2] [3]
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 River Dão valley.
The species name parilarilao also forms a part of its alternative name, the parilarilao trapdoor spider. In the Paiwan language , parilarilao means "living at the end of Taiwan". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Despite several searches during the species identification process, only female I. parilarilao specimens were found.
Myrmekiaphila is a genus of North American mygalomorph trapdoor spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by G. F. Atkinson in 1886. [2] All described species are endemic to the southeastern United States. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the wafer trapdoor spiders in 1985, [3] then to the Euctenizidae in ...