Ancylotrypa sororum
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| Bedford wafer-lid trapdoor spider | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Cyrtaucheniidae |
| Genus: | Ancylotrypa |
| Species: | A. sororum |
| Binomial name | |
| Ancylotrypa sororum (Hewitt, 1916) | |
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Ancylotrypa sororum, commonly known as the Bedford wafer-lid trapdoor spider, is a species of spider of the genus Ancylotrypa. It is endemic to South Africa.[1]
Ancylotrypa sororum is known from three provinces: Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, and Western Cape. The type locality is Bedford in the Eastern Cape. It has been recorded from Bedford, Mountain Zebra National Park, Asante Sana Private Game Reserve, Fort Fordyce Forest Reserve, Benfontein Dam, and Karoo National Park, at elevations between 751 and 3713 meters above sea level.[2]
Habitat and ecology
Ground dweller that lives in silk-lined burrows sampled from the Grassland, Nama Karoo and Thicket biomes.[2]
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