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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » Mygalomorphs (Mygalomorphae) » Wafer-lid trapdoor spiders (Euctenizidae) » Myrmekiaphila

Genus Myrmekiaphila

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Print References

Trapdoor Spider - Myrmekiaphila - female

Wafer-lid trapdoor spider - Myrmekiaphila comstocki

Myrmekiaphila spp.? (M. torreya?) - Myrmekiaphila - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Mygalomorphs)

Family Euctenizidae (Wafer-lid trapdoor spiders)

Genus Myrmekiaphila

Numbers

12 described species:

M. comstocki - Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana

M. coreyi - Florida, southern Georgia

M. foliata - Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia

M. flavipes - southern Indiana

M. fluviatilis - northern Alabama

M. howelli - central Mississippi

M. jenkinsi - central Tennessee, Kentucky

M. millerae - central Mississippi

M. minuta - Florida

M. neilyoungi - Alabama, western Florida

M. tigris - Alabama, Georgia

M. torreya - western Florida, Georgia

Identification

"Males can be separated from those of the other euctenizine genera by the medially compressed and distally expanded metatarsus I" *

Range

southeastern US, westwards to central Texas

Map in Bailey et al (2010)

Remarks

Trapdoor spiders

Print References

Bailey, A. L., Brewer, M. S., Hendrixson, B. E. & Bond, J. E. (2010). Phylogeny and classification of the trapdoor spider genus Myrmekiaphila: An integrative approach to evaluating taxonomic hypotheses. PLoS One 5(9): e12744. (online PDF)

Bond, J.E. and N.I. Platnick. 2007. A taxonomic review of the trapdoor spider genus Myrmekiaphila (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae). American Museum novitates, no. 3596. (online PDF)

Bond, J. E., Hamilton, C. A., Garrison, N. L. & Ray, C. H. (2012). Phylogenetic reconsideration of Myrmekiaphila systematics with a description of the trapdoor spider species Myrmekiaphila tigris (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae, Euctenizinae) from Auburn, Alabama. ZooKeys 190: 94-109. (online PDF)

Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 20 February, 2008 - 6:40pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, jsloan, mhedin
Last updated 9 January, 2017 - 10:03pm

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