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Encyclopedia > Barychelidae
?Brushed trap-door spiders
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Mygalomorphae
Infraorder: Tuberculotae
Superfamily: Barycheloidea
Family: Barychelidae
Simon, 1889
Diversity
44 genera, 300 species

Genera

see text Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera (sponges) Subregnum Agnotozoa Placozoa (trichoplax) Orthonectida (orthonectids) Rhombozoa (dicyemids) Subregnum Eumetazoa Radiata (unranked) (radial symmetry) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anemones) Bilateria (unranked) (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (parasitic to flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ... Subphyla and Classes Subphylum Trilobitomorpha Trilobita - Trilobites (extinct) Subphylum Chelicerata Arachnida - Spiders, Scorpions, etc. ... Orders Acarina Amblypygi Araneae Opiliones Palpigradi Pseudoscorpionida Ricinulei Schizomida Scorpiones Solifugae Uropygi The arachnids, Arachnida, are a class of invertebrate animals in the subphylum Chelicerata. ... For other uses, see Spider (disambiguation). ... Families Antrodiaetidae (folding trapdoor spider) Atypidae (atypical tarantula) Ctenizidae (trapdoor spider) Cyrtaucheniidae (wafer trapdoor spider) Dipluridae (funnel-web tarantula) Hexathelidae (venomous funnel-web tarantula) Mecicobothriidae (dwarf tarantulas) Theraphosidae (tarantula) The Mygalomorphae, (also called the Orthognatha), are an infraorder of spiders. ... Eugène Simon (April 30, 1848 - November 17, 1924) was a French arachnologist. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

The Brushed trapdoor spiders (family Barychelidae) are a spider family with about 300 species in 44 genera. This family is the only family in superfamily Barycheloidea. Suborders Araneomorphae Mesothelae Mygalomorphae See the taxonomy section for families Spiders are predatory invertebrate animals that produce silk, and have two tagma, eight legs, no chewing mouth parts and no wings. ...


Most spiders in this family build trap-door burrows. There are some species that avoid flooding by plugging their nests. Others can avoid drowning by trapping air bubbles within their fur.


Like the Theraphosidae (tarantulas), they can run up glass. Genera Subfamily Acanthopelminae Acanthopelma Subfamily Aviculariinae Avicularia Subfamily Eumenophorinae Citharischius Phoneyusa Subfamily Harpactirinae Pterinochilus Subfamily Ischnocolinae Subfamily Ornithoctoninae Cyriopagopus Haplopelma Subfamily Poecilotheriinae Poecilotheria Subfamily Selenocosmiinae Chilobrachys Psalmopoeus Subfamily Selenogyrinae Subfamily Stromatopelminae Heteroscodra Subfamily Theraphosinae Acanthoscurria Aphonopelma Brachypelma Chromatopelma Eupalaestrus Grammostola Lasiodora Megaphobema Nhandu Theraphosa Subfamily Thrigmopoeinae Tarantulas are spiders belonging...


Some species can stridulate. Stridulation is the production of sounds by rubbing two parts of the body together; this mechanism is best known in crickets, grasshoppers, and cicadas. ...

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Distribution

Barychelids are found in South America, Africa, Madagascar, India, New Guinea, and Pacific islands. South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... For other uses, see Africa (disambiguation). ... The Pacific Ocean has an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 islands; the exact number has not been precisely determined. ...


Genera

  • Ammonius Thorell, 1899 (Cameroon)
  • Atrophothele Pocock, 1903 (Socotra)
  • Aurecocrypta Raven, 1994 (Australia)
  • Barycheloides Raven, 1994 (New Caledonia)
  • Barychelus Simon, 1889 (New Caledonia)
  • Cosmopelma Simon, 1889 (Brazil, Venezuela)
  • Cyphonisia Simon, 1889 (Africa)
  • Cyrtogrammomma Pocock, 1895 (Guyana)
  • Diplothele O. P-Cambridge, 1890 (India)
  • Encyocrypta Simon, 1889 (New Caledonia)
  • Eubrachycercus Pocock, 1897 (Somalia)
  • Fijocrypta Raven, 1994 (Fiji)
  • Idioctis L. Koch, 1874 (Madagascar, Oceania, Australia, Seychelles)
  • Idiommata Ausserer, 1871 (Australia)
  • Idiophthalma O. P.-Cambridge, 1877 (South America)
  • Mandjelia Raven, 1994 (Australia)
  • Monodontium Kulczynski, 1908 (New Guinea)
  • Moruga Raven, 1994 (Australia)
  • Natgeogia Raven, 1994 (New Caledonia)
  • Neodiplothele Mello-Leitão, 1917 (Brazil)
  • Nihoa Raven & Churchill, 1992 (Oceania)
  • Orstom Raven, 1994 (New Caledonia)
  • Ozicrypta Raven, 1994 (Australia)
  • Paracenobiopelma Feio, 1952 (Brazil)
  • Pisenor Simon, 1889 (Africa)
  • Plagiobothrus Karsch, 1891 (Sri Lanka)
  • Psalistops Simon, 1889 (Central to South America)
  • Questocrypta Raven, 1994 (New Caledonia)
  • Reichlingia Rudloff, 2001 (Belize)
  • Rhianodes Raven, 1985 (Southeast Asia)
  • Sason Simon, 1887 (Australasia)
  • Sasonichus Pocock, 1900 (India)
  • Seqocrypta Raven, 1994 (Australia)
  • Sipalolasma Simon, 1892 (Southeast Asia, Africa)
  • Strophaeus Ausserer, 1875 (Peru, Brazil)
  • Synothele Simon, 1908 (Australia)
  • Thalerommata Ausserer, 1875 (Colombia, Mexico)
  • Tigidia Simon, 1892 (Madagascar, Mauritius)
  • Trichopelma Simon, 1888 (Caribic, South America)
  • Trittame L. Koch, 1874 (Australia)
  • Troglothele Fage, 1929 (Cuba)
  • Tungari Raven, 1994 (Australia)
  • Zophorame Raven, 1990 (Australia)
  • Zophoryctes Simon, 1902 (Madagascar)

Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (May 3, 1830 - December 22, 1901) was a Swedish arachnologist. ... Reginald Innes Pocock sucks!!! Partial bibliography Reginald I. Pocock (1902) Reginald Innes Pocock (1902) Reginald Innes Pocock (1900) The Fauna of British India (including Ceylon and Burma). ... Map of the Socotra archipelago Socotra or Soqotra (Arabic سقطرى ; Suquá¹­ra) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa, some 350 km south of the Arabian peninsula. ... Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge ( November 3, 1828 - March 9, 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. ... Oceania is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands but sometimes including Australia—in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. ... Anton Ausserer (1843 - 1889) was an Austrian naturalist specialising in spiders. ...

See also

Diversity 111 families Families see table The Araneae are an order of the arthropod class Arachnida with about 40,000 described species, although there are probably many species that have escaped the human eye to this day, and lots of specimen stored in collections waiting to be described and classified. ...

References

  • Raven, R. J., 1986. A revision of the spider genus Sason Simon (Sasoninae, Barychelidae, Mygalomorphae) and its historical biogeography. Journal of Arachnology, 14: 47-70. PDF
  • Valerio, C. E. 1986. Mygalomorph spiders in the Barychelidae (Araneae) from Costa Rica. J. Arachnol., 14:93-99. PDF (Psalistops venadensis, Trichopelma laselva)
  • SCHWENDINGER, P. J. 2003. Two new species of the arboreal trapdoor spider genus Sason (Araneae, Barychelidae) from Southeast Asia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2): 197-207. PDF (S. sundaicum, S. andamanicum)

External links

  • Trap-door spiders, brush-footed trap-door spiders



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