Halonoproctidae | |
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Bothriocyrtum californicum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Clade: | Avicularioidea |
Family: | Halonoproctidae Pocock, 1901 |
Diversity | |
6 genera, 93 species |
Halonoproctidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders, split off from the family Ctenizidae in 2018. Species in the family are widely distributed in North and Central America, Australasia, Asia, southern Europe and North Africa. One species is recorded from Venezuela in South America.[1] They are relatively large, sombrely coloured spiders, that live in burrows with some kind of trapdoor.