| Tree trapdoor spiders | |
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| Paramigas perroti | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Clade: | Avicularioidea |
| Family: | Migidae Simon, 1889 |
| Diversity | |
| 11 genera, 103 species | |
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Migidae, also known as tree trapdoor spiders, is a family of spiders with about 100 species in eleven genera. They are small to large spiders with little to no hair and build burrows with a trapdoor.[1] Some species live in tree fern stems. They have a Gondwanan distribution, found almost exclusively on the Southern Hemisphere, occurring in South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia.[2][3]
- ^ Griswold, C. E. (1998). "The nest and male of the trap-door spider Poecilomigas basilleupi Benoit, 1962 (Araneae, Migidae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 26: 142–148.
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NMBEwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Raven, R.J. (1984). "Systematics and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Migidae (Araneae) in Australia". Aust. J. Zool. 32 (3): 379–390. doi:10.1071/ZO9840379.