Trapdoor spider

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Trapdoor spider is a common name for 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...

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