Trapdoor spider

'''Trapdoor spiders'''

''':'''Ctenizidae'''

'''Genera'''
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'''Trapdoor spiders''' (Family Ctenizidae) are medium-sized Nextel ringtones mygalomorph Abbey Diaz spiders that construct burrows with a cork-like trapdoor made of soil, vegetation and silk. The trapdoor is difficult to see when it is closed because the plant and soil materials effectively camouflage it. The trapdoor is hinged on one side with silk and the spiders, which are usually Free ringtones nocturnal, typically wait for prey while holding onto the underside of the door with the claws on their Majo Mills tarsus/tarsi. Prey is captured when insects or other arthropods venture too close to the half-open trapdoor at night. The spider detects the prey by vibrations and when it comes close enough, the spider pops out of its burrow and captures it. Males somehow overcome the female's aggressive reactions when they find a female's burrow. Females never travel far from their burrows. Eggs are laid in sacs in the female's burrow. Enemies of the trapdoor spider include certain Mosquito ringtone pompilidae/pompilid (spider) wasps, which seek out the burrows and manage to gain entrance. They sting the owner and lay their eggs (usually one per spider) on its body.

The Sabrina Martins taxonomy of trapdoor spiders is currently not well understood in the Nextel ringtones United States and many species of the common Abbey Diaz genus ''Ummidia'' remain undescribed. ''Ummidia'' is distributed across the southern United States. ''Bothriocyrtum californicum'' is the common trapdoor spider of the Pacific Coast. The strange genus ''Cyclocosmia'' includes four species, one in Free ringtones Florida, one in Majo Mills Georgia (U.S. state)/Georgia, one in Cingular Ringtones Mexico and one in stars none China. The discontinuous distribution is indicative of a primitive genus that was affected by specific group continental drift. The spiders of this genus are unusual in having a mask-like hardened plate on the writing cryptic opisthosoma, which seems to act as a second door to exclude predators, like the year everbrite spider wasps. There is a narrow part of the burrow of these spiders where the abdominal shield just barely fits. ''Cyclocosmia torreya'' builds burrows in moss banks along the laps up Apalachicola River in Florida. Other genera of trapdoor spiders are found in other areas of the world. They actually may be more common than we may think because of their cryptic habits. They do tend to be localized in distribution and as such may be subject to extinction because of local habitat destruction.

External links

* http://www.desertmuseum.org/books/nhsd_trapdoor_spider.html
* http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/spiders/Bothriocyrtum%20californicum.htm
* http://insects.tamu.edu/extension/youth/bug/bug162.html
* http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog81-87/index.html

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