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Family Euctenizidae - Wafer-lid trapdoor spiders

Trapdoor/Cyrtaucheniid outed - Promyrmekiaphila clathrata

Trapdoor Spider - Myrmekiaphila - female

Southern Coastal Dune Trapdoor Spider - Aptostichus simus - 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)

Numbers

Seven described genera in US + Canada

Print References

Bond, J. E. & Opell, B. D. (2002). Phylogeny and taxonomy of the genera of south-western North American Euctenizinae trapdoor spiders and their relatives (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Cyrtaucheniidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136: 487-534. (online PDF)

Bond et al 2012 A Reconsideration of the Classification of the Spider Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Arachnida: Araneae) Based on Three Nuclear Genes and Morphology (online PDF)

Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 12 January, 2006 - 5:26pm
Additional contributions by mhedin
Last updated 9 January, 2017 - 10:41pm

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