Migidae
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| Tree trapdoor spiders | |
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| Paramigas perroti | |
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| Bertmainius tumidus from Australia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Clade: | Avicularioidea |
| Family: | Migidae Simon, 1889 |
| Diversity | |
| 11 genera, 108 species | |
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| blue: reported countries (WSC) | |
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]
