Wafer-lid trapdoor spider

Wafer-lid trapdoor spider
Temporal range: Neogene–present
Anemesia koponeni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Clade: Avicularioidea
Family: Cyrtaucheniidae
Simon, 1892[1]
Diversity[2]
6 genera, 93 species

The family Cyrtaucheniidae, known as wafer-lid trapdoor spiders,[3] are a widespread family of Mygalomorphae spiders.

  1. ^ "Family: Cyrtaucheniidae Simon, 1889", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2015-11-11
  2. ^ "Currently valid spider genera and species", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2015-11-11
  3. ^ Dippenaar-Schoeman, Ansie (2023). Field guide to the spiders of South Africa. Penguin Random House South Africa. ISBN 9781775847984.