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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
Idiopidae, also known as armored or spiny trapdoor spiders, [1] is a family of mygalomorph [2] spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1889. [ 3 ] Behaviour
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
One female trapdoor spider, first recorded in a survey in 1974 in Western Australia, is known to have lived for 43 years. ... much of today's classification scheme ...
Paintings of Araneus angulatus from Svenska Spindlar of 1757, the first major work on spider taxonomy. Spider taxonomy is the part of taxonomy that is concerned with the science of naming, defining and classifying all spiders, members of the Araneae order of the arthropod class Arachnida, which has more than 48,500 described species. [1]
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.
Scientific classification; Domain: Eukaryota: Kingdom: ... the southwestern trapdoor spider, is a species of wafer-lid trapdoor spider in the family Euctenizidae ...
They live in burrows, often with a hinged trapdoor. This door is pushed up while the spider waits for passing prey. They rarely leave their burrows, catching prey and withdrawing as quickly as possible. Some of these burrows have side tubes. For the east-Asian genus Sinopesa it is uncertain whether it builds burrows at all. [6]