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
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)
