Idiopidae

Idiopidae

male Idiops constructor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Mygalomorphae
Infraorder:	Fornicephalae
Superfamily:	Idiopoidea
Family:	Idiopidae Simon, 1892
Genera
see text
Diversity
22 genera, 275 species

Idiopidae^[1] (superfamily Idiopoidea) are a mygalomorph spider family, also known as the armored trapdoor spiders.^[2] They have a large body that often looks rather like a tarantula.

Description

Gorgyrella sp.

In some species the males have a spur on their legs, which they will show if provoked.^[3]

Idiopidae build burrows, and some species close these with a door.

The about 2 cm long Prothemenops siamensis from Thailand builds its retreat in a streamside vertical earth bank in lower montane rain forest. Each burrow had two or three entrances that lead into a main tube. Its lateral posterior spinnerets are elongated.^[4]

Genera

The categorization into subfamilies follows Raven (1985)

Arbanitinae Simon, 1903

Aganippini

Aganippe O. P-Cambridge, 1877 — Australia
Anidiops Pocock, 1897 — Australia
Eucyrtops Pocock, 1897 — Australia
Idiosoma Ausserer, 1871 — Australia

Arbanitini

Arbanitis L. Koch, 1874 — Australia
Blakistonia Hogg, 1902 — Australia
Cantuaria Hogg, 1902 — New Zealand
Cataxia Rainbow, 1914 — Australia
Euoplos Rainbow, 1914 — Australia
Misgolas Karsch, 1878 — Australia

Genysinae Simon, 1903

Genysa Simon, 1889 — Madagascar
Hiboka Fage, 1922 — Madagascar
Neocteniza Pocock, 1895 — Central and South America
Scalidognathus Karsch, 1891 — India, Sri Lanka, Seychelles

Idiopinae Simon, 1892

Ctenolophus Purcell, 1904 — South Africa
Galeosoma Purcell, 1903 — southern Africa
Gorgyrella Purcell, 1902 — southern Africa
Heligmomerus Simon, 1892 — Africa, India, Sri Lanka
Idiops Perty, 1833 — South America, Africa, South Asia, Middle East
Segregara Tucker, 1917 — South Africa
Titanidiops Simon, 1903 — Africa, Canary Islands

incertae sedis

Prothemenops Schwendinger, 1991 — Thailand

Prothemenops siamensis Schwendinger, 1991

Footnotes

↑ Raven, R.J. 1985. The spider Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 1-180.
↑ American Arachnological Society Committee on Common Names of Arachnids (2003). Common Names of Arachnids (PDF) (Report) (Fifth ed.).
↑ Find-a-spider Guide
↑ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 69f

References

Raven, Robert John (1985). The spider Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 1-180.
Find-a-spider Guide: Spider Families
Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.

External links

Wikispecies has information related to: Idiopidae

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Find-a-spider Guide: Images of several species

Extant Araneae families

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida

Suborder Mesothelae

Liphistiidae (segmented spiders)

Suborder Opisthothelae

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