Migidae
| Tree trapdoor spiders | |
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| Paramigas perroti | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Opisthothelae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Migidae Simon, 1892 |
| Genera | |
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| Diversity | |
| 10 genera, 91 species | |
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Migidae is a family of spiders with about 90 species in 10 genera, known as tree trapdoor spiders. They have a Gondwanan distribution and occur almost exclusively on the Southern Hemisphere.
They are small spiders with rather little hair. They build burrows with a trapdoor. Some species live in tree fern stems.
Tree trapdoor spiders occur in South America, Africa and Australia, Madagascar, New Zealand and New Caledonia.
Genera
The categorization into subfamilies follows Joel Hallan.
- Calathotarsinae Simon, 1903
- Calathotarsus Simon, 1903 (Chile, Argentina)
- Heteromigas Hogg, 1902 (Australia)
- Miginae Simon, 1892
- Goloboffia Griswold & Ledford, 2001 (Chile)
- Migas L. Koch, 1873 (New Zealand, Australia)
- Poecilomigas Simon, 1903 (Africa)
- Paramiginae Petrunkevitch, 1939
- Micromesomma Pocock, 1895 (Madagascar)
- Moggridgea O. P-Cambridge, 1875 (Africa)
- Paramigas Pocock, 1895 (Madagascar)
- Thyropoeus Pocock, 1895 (Madagascar)
- Mallecomigas Goloboff & Platnick, 1987 (Chile)
See also
References
- Raven, R.J. (1984). Systematics and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Migidae (Araneae) in Australia. Aust. J. Zool. 32: 379-390 Abstract (Migas, Heteromigas)
- Griswold, C. E. 1998a. The nest and male of the trap-door spider Poecilomigas basilleupi Benoit, 1962 (Araneae, Migidae). Journal of Arachnology, 26: 142--148. PDF
- Zapfe, H. (1961). La Familia Migidae en Chile. Invest. Zool. Chil. 7: 151-157
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