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Myrmekiaphila
Myrmekiaphila is a genus of North American mygalomorph trapdoor spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by G. F. Atkinson in 1886. All described species are endemic to the southeastern United States.
Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the wafer trapdoor spiders in 1985, then to the Euctenizidae in 2012. Myrmekiaphila appears as the sister group to all southwestern Euctenizidae with the exception of Apomastus, which in turn is the sister group to all euctenizines. M. flavipes was transferred from Aptostichus in 2007.
12 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Comstock's Wafer Trapdoor Spider
speciesMyrmekiaphila comstocki
Myrmekiaphila foliata
speciesMyrmekiaphila foliata
Myrmekiaphila jenkinsi
speciesMyrmekiaphila jenkinsi
Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi
speciesMyrmekiaphila neilyoungi
Myrmekiaphila torreya
speciesMyrmekiaphila torreya
Myrmekiaphila coreyi
speciesMyrmekiaphila coreyi
Myrmekiaphila millerae
speciesMyrmekiaphila millerae
Myrmekiaphila minuta
speciesMyrmekiaphila minuta
Myrmekiaphila tigris
speciesMyrmekiaphila tigris
Myrmekiaphila howelli
speciesMyrmekiaphila howelli
Myrmekiaphila fluviatilis
speciesMyrmekiaphila fluviatilis
Myrmekiaphila flavipes
speciesMyrmekiaphila flavipes
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 172383.