| Atypical tarantulas Temporal range:
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| Sphodros rufipes | |
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| Atypus karschi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Clade: | Atypoidea |
| Family: | Atypidae Thorell, 1870 |
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| Diversity | |
| 3 genera, 58 species | |
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Atypidae, also known as atypical tarantulas or purseweb spiders, is a spider family containing only three genera. They are accomplished ambush predators that spend most of their time in a sock-like, silken retreat on the ground from where they kill their prey.[1]