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Euctenizidae
Sign in to saveThe Euctenizidae are a family of mygalomorph spiders. Originally created as a subfamily of Cyrtaucheniidae by Robert Raven in 1985, it was established as a family by Bond et al. in 2012.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyEuctenizidae
Observations recorded2,113
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2
- Family
- Euctenizidae
- Collections
- UNM, DMNS
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Mygalomorphae
- Image
- Aptostichus female.jpg
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- taxon name
- Euctenizidae
- Commons category
- Euctenizidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Euctenizidae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon common name
- Wafer-lid trapdoor spiders
- taxonomic type
- Eucteniza
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
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The Euctenizidae are a family of mygalomorph spiders. Originally created as a subfamily of Cyrtaucheniidae by Robert Raven in 1985, it was established as a family by Bond et al. in 2012.
They are now considered to be more closely related to Idiopidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Euctenizidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.