Migidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Mygalomorphae
Superfamilia: Migoidea

Familia: Migidae
Genera (10): Calathotarsus - Goloboffia - Heteromigas - Mallecomigas - Micromesomma - Migas - Moggridgea - Paramigas - Poecilomigas - Thyropoeus

Name

Migidae Simon, 1892

References

Paquin, P.; Vink, C.J.; Dupérré, N. 2010: Spiders of New Zealand: annotated family key & species list. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand. ISBN 9780478347050

selected links

The World Spider Catalog, Version 15.5

additional links

Migidae – Taxon details on Atlas of Living Australia (ALA).
Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)

Vernacular names
català: Mígid
English: Tree Trapdoor Spider
中文: 四纺蛛科

Migidae, also known as tree trapdoor spiders, is a family of spiders with about 100 species in eleven genera. They are small to large spiders with little to no hair and build burrows with a trapdoor.[1] Some species live in tree fern stems. They have a Gondwanan distribution, found almost exclusively on the Southern Hemisphere, occurring in South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia.[2][3]
Genera
Main article: List of Migidae species

As of April 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[2]

Bertmainius Harvey, Main, Rix & Cooper, 2015 — Australia
Calathotarsus Simon, 1903 — Chile, Argentina
Goloboffia Griswold & Ledford, 2001 — Chile
Heteromigas Hogg, 1902 — Australia
Mallecomigas Goloboff & Platnick, 1987 — Chile
Micromesomma Pocock, 1895 — Madagascar
Migas L. Koch, 1873 — New Zealand, Australia
Moggridgea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875 — Africa, Australia, Yemen
Paramigas Pocock, 1895 — Madagascar
Poecilomigas Simon, 1903 — South Africa, Tanzania
Thyropoeus Pocock, 1895 — Madagascar

References

Griswold, C. E. (1998). "The nest and male of the trap-door spider Poecilomigas basilleupi Benoit, 1962 (Araneae, Migidae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 26: 142–148.
"Family: Migidae Simon, 1889". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-22.

Raven, R.J. (1984). "Systematics and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Migidae (Araneae) in Australia". Aust. J. Zool. 32 (3): 379–390. doi:10.1071/ZO9840379.

Zapfe, H. (1961). La Familia Migidae en Chile. Invest. Zool. Chil. 7: 151-157