Avicularioidea
Avicularioidea is a clade of mygalomorph spiders, one of the two main clades into which mygalomorphs are divided (the other being the Atypoidea). It has been treated at the rank of superfamily.
27 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first
Tarantulas
familyTheraphosidae
Saddle-legged Trapdoor Spiders
familyHalonoproctidae
Tubetrapdoor and Wishbone Spiders
familyNemesiidae
Wafer-lid Trapdoor Spiders
familyEuctenizidae
Spiny Trapdoor Spiders
familyIdiopidae
mouse spiders
familyActinopodidae
Open-holed Trapdoor Spiders
familyPycnothelidae
Curtain-web Spiders
familyDipluridae
Northern Tunnel Spiders
familyMacrothelidae
Wishbone Spiders
familyAnamidae
Australian Funnel-web Spiders
familyAtracidae
Brushfooted Trapdoor Spiders
familyBarychelidae
Spiny Curtain-web Spiders
familyEuagridae
New Zealand Tunnel Spiders
familyPorrhothelidae
Funnel-web Spiders
familyHexathelidae
Zebra Curtain-web Spiders
familyIschnothelidae
tree trapdoor spiders
familyMigidae
Afrasian Wishbone Spiders
familyBemmeridae
Cork-lid Trapdoor Spiders
familyCtenizidae
Wafer-lid trapdoor spiders
familyCyrtaucheniidae
African Open-hole Spiders
familyEntypesidae
Golden Tunnel-web Spiders
familyRhytidicolidae
baldlegged spiders
familyParatropididae
Microstigmatid Spiders
familyMicrostigmatidae
Horned Trapdoor Spiders
familyStasimopidae
Pygmy Funnel-web Spiders
familyMicrohexuridae
Melloinidae
familyMelloinidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1467321.