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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
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 ...
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
Stanwellia grisea, also known as the Melbourne trapdoor spider, is a species of mygalomorph spider in the Pycnothelidae family. It is endemic to Australia . It was described in 1901 by British arachnologist Henry Roughton Hogg .
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.
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 .
Cteniza sauvagesi is a trapdoor spider first described in 1788 by Pietro Rossi. [2] These spiders have only been found in the Mediterranean region, mainly on the large islands of Corsica and Sardinia on roadside banks and in the littoral zone. They are darkly colored with a shiny head and can reach 20 millimetres (0.79 in) in length. [3]
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.