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Trapdoor spider is a
common name that is used to refer to various
spiders from several different groups that create burrows with a silk-hinged trapdoor to help them ambush prey.
Several families within the
infraorder
Mygalomorphae contain trapdoor spiders:
Actinopodidae , a family otherwise known as 'mouse-spiders', in South America and Australia
Antrodiaetidae , a family of 'folding trapdoor spiders' from the United States and Japan
Barychelidae , a family of 'brush-footed trapdoor spiders' with
pantropical distribution
Ctenizidae , a family of '
cork -lid trapdoor spiders' in
tropical and
subtropical regions
Cyrtaucheniidae , a family of 'wafer-lid trapdoor spiders, with wide distribution except cooler regions
Euctenizidae , a family of spiders that make wafer-like or cork-like trapdoors
Halonoproctidae , a family of spiders that make wafer-like or cork-like trapdoors and includes the
phragmotic genus
Cyclocosmia
Idiopidae , a family of 'spurred-trapdoor spiders' or 'armoured trapdoors' mostly in
Southern Hemisphere
Migidae , also known as 'ridge fanged trapdoor spiders' or 'tree trapdoor spiders', in the Southern Hemisphere
Nemesiidae , a family of 'tube trapdoor spiders', with both tropical and
temperate species worldwide
Theraphosidae , a family of tarantulas (where just a few species make trapdoors), also with wide distribution
There is also one family of trapdoor spiders in the suborder
Mesothelae :
Liphistiidae , a family of spiders with armoured abdomens from Southeast Asia, China and Japan