Myrmekiaphila
Sign in to saveMyrmekiaphila is a genus of North American mygalomorph trapdoor spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by G. F. Atkinson in 1886. All described species are endemic to the southeastern United States.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyEuctenizidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- Family
- Euctenizidae
- Collections
- ABS, MCZ, NMSU, USNM, INHS
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cyrtaucheniidae
- Image
- Myrmekiaphila tigris female.jpg
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- Myrmekiaphila
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- Myrmekiaphila
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- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Myrmekiaphila
- endemic to
- United States
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Myrmekiaphila is a genus of North American mygalomorph trapdoor spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by G. F. Atkinson in 1886. All described species are endemic to the southeastern United States.
Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the wafer trapdoor spiders in 1985, then to the Euctenizidae in 2012. Myrmekiaphila appears as the sister group to all southwestern Euctenizidae with the exception of Apomastus, which in turn is the sister group to all euctenizines. M. flavipes was transferred from Aptostichus in 2007.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Myrmekiaphila” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.