For the New York City social group, see Trap Door Spiders. For other spiders called "trapdoor spiders", see List of trapdoor spiders.
Ctenizidae
Temporal range: Palaeogene–present
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Cteniza sauvagesi
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Chelicerata
Class:
Arachnida
Order:
Araneae
Infraorder:
Mygalomorphae
Clade:
Avicularioidea
Family:
Ctenizidae Thorell, 1887
Genera
See text
Diversity[1]
2 genera, 5 species
Ctenizidae 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 Nemesiidae. The name comes from the distinctive behavior of the spiders to construct trapdoors, and ambush prey from beneath them.[2]
In 2018, the family Halonoproctidae was split off from the Ctenizidae.[3] A further genus, Stasimopus, was split off into its own family, Stasimopidae, in 2020.[3][4] The family currently consists of two genera and five species.[1]
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Ctenizidae 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...
study by Opatova et al. (2020) The generic composition of the families Ctenizidae, Cyrtaucheniidae, Dipluridae, and Nemesiidae were relimited. Five subfamilies...
first described by Anton Ausserer in 1871. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, when the family split in 2018, this genus was placed with the Halonoproctidae...
This page lists all described species of the spider family Ctenizidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of December 2020[update]: † Baltocteniza...
Halonoproctidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders, split off from the family Ctenizidae in 2018. Species in the family are widely distributed in North and Central...
Zhang, 2006 : Rare spiders of the genus Cyclocosmia (Arachnida: Araneae: Ctenizidae) from tropical and subtropical China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, vol...
family of 'brush-footed trapdoor spiders' with pantropical distribution Ctenizidae, a family of 'cork-lid trapdoor spiders' in tropical and subtropical regions...
legs. The primitive Liphistiidae, the "trapdoor spiders" of the family Ctenizidae and many tarantulas are ambush predators that lurk in burrows, often closed...
BY (1969). "The trap-door spider genus Cataxia Rainbow (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae): taxonomy and natural history". Journal of the Australian Entomological...
"Systematics of the trapdoor spider genus Homogona Rainbow (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae: Homogoninae)". Journal of the Australian Entomological Society. 22: 81–92...
South Africa: P. gobabeb, and P. straminea. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, then to...
serve as a lever to make raising and lowering the lid easier. List of Ctenizidae species "Cteniza moggridgei O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874". World Spider...
was first described by Eugène Simon in 1889. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the Cyrtaucheniidae in 1953. As of October 2022[update]...
Description of a new species of Homogona Rainbow from Victoria (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae)". Victorian Naturalist. 102: 16–19 [16]. "Species Cataxia victoriae (Main...
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