Dipluridae
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The family Dipluridae, known as curtain-web spiders (or confusingly as funnel-web tarantulas, a name shared with other distantly related families) are a group of spiders in the infraorder Mygalomorphae, that have two pairs of booklungs, and chelicerae (fangs) that move up and down in a stabbing motion. A number of genera, including that of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax), used to be classified in this family but have now been moved to Atracidae.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyDipluridae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 220
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Dipluridae
- Collections
- FMNH, UNM, TTU
- Recorded in
- MéXico, Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica, South Africa, United States, Panamá, Madagascar
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Description
- Biology
- Distribution
- Taxonomy
- Genera
- Transferred to other families
- Extinct species
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
The family Dipluridae, known as curtain-web spiders (or confusingly as funnel-web tarantulas, a name shared with other distantly related families) are a group of spiders in the infraorder Mygalomorphae, that have two pairs of booklungs, and chelicerae (fangs) that move up and down in a stabbing motion. A number of genera, including that of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax), used to be classified in this family but have now been moved to Atracidae.
==Description==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dipluridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.