Trapdoor Spiders Wa

Spiders such as the common wolf spider run down their prey and a trapdoor spider lays in wait in its burrow awaiting prey to pass by.

Trapdoor spiders wa. Wa is home to 14 newly described species of trapdoor spider after a collaborative research effort to describe unnamed specimens from collections dating back to the 1950s. For those species that do these highly camouflaged entrances are almost undetectable unless the door is open. Rare species of armoured trapdoor spiders native to western australia are already added to the threatened species list despite being newly discovered. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website.

One of the spiders cataxia colesi was named after wa museum chief executive alec coles a member of the 2015 scientific expedition that found them. All spiders spin silk but not all build webs for the purpose of catching prey. The trapdoor spider is a common name for any of several large hairy harmless tropical spiders that nest underground. Australia has the highest diversity of spiny trapdoor spiders belonging to the family idiopidae in the world however many specimens remained unnamed.

Trapdoor spiders are a medium sized mygalomorph an infraorder of spiders spiders that construct burrows with a cork like trapdoor made of soil vegetation and silk.

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