Idiopidae
| Armored trapdoor spiders | |
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| Idiops constructor, male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Clade: | Avicularioidea |
| Family: | Idiopidae Simon, 1889 |
| Diversity | |
| 23 genera, 441 species | |
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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[edit]
Idiopidae build burrows, and some species close these with a door. Prothemenops siamensis from Thailand, which is about 2 cm long, builds its retreat in a streamside vertical earth bank in lower montane rainforest. Each burrow has two or three entrances that lead into a main tube.
Description[edit]
The spiders have large bodies, similar to those of tarantulas. In most species the males have a spur on their legs, which is used to immobilise the female and prevent her from biting during the mating process. The lateral posterior spinnerets are elongated.[4]
The oldest known idiopid, Number 16, died at the age of 43 years.[5]
Species[edit]
As of 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera:[6]
- Arbanitis L. Koch, 1874 — Australia
- Blakistonia Hogg, 1902 — Australia
- Bungulla Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2017 — Australia
- Cantuaria Hogg, 1902 — New Zealand, Australia
- Cataxia Rainbow, 1914 — Australia
- Cryptoforis Wilson, Rix & Raven, 2020 — Australia
- Ctenolophus Purcell, 1904 — South Africa
- Eucanippe Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2017 — Australia
- Eucyrtops Pocock, 1897 — Australia
- Euoplos Rainbow, 1914 — Australia
- Gaius Rainbow, 1914 — Australia
- Galeosoma Purcell, 1903 — South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana
- Genysa Simon, 1889 — Madagascar
- Gorgyrella Purcell, 1902 — Zimbabwe, Tanzania, South Africa
- Heligmomerus Simon, 1892 — Africa, Asia
- Hiboka Fage, 1922 — Madagascar
- Idiops Perty, 1833 — South America, Africa, Asia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Idiosoma Ausserer, 1871 — Australia
- Neocteniza Pocock, 1895 — Central America, South America
- Prothemenops Schwendinger, 1991 — Thailand
- Scalidognathus Karsch, 1892 — India, Sri Lanka
- Segregara Tucker, 1917 — South Africa
- Titanidiops Simon, 1903 — Morocco
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ American Arachnological Society Committee on Common Names of Arachnids (2003). Common Names of Arachnids (PDF) (Report) (Fifth ed.).
- ^ Raven, R.J. (1985). "The spider Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182.
- ^ Simon, E. (1889). Arachnides.
- ^ Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). "An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia". Malaysian Nature Society Kuala Lumpur.
- ^ Leanda Denise Mason; Grant Wardell-Johnson; Barbara York Main (2018). "The longest-lived spider: mygalomorphs dig deep, and persevere". Pacific Conservation Biology. 24 (2): 203. doi:10.1071/PC18015. hdl:20.500.11937/68826.
- ^ "Family: Idiopidae Simon, 1889". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
External links[edit]
- Find-a-spider Guide: Images of several species