Migidae
| Tree trapdoor spiders | |
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| Paramigas perroti | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Euarthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: |
Migidae Simon, 1892 |
| Genera | |
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| Diversity | |
| 11 genera, 97 species | |
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Migidae is a family of spiders with about 90 species in 10 genera, known as tree trapdoor spiders. They have a Gondwanan distribution and occur almost exclusively on the Southern Hemisphere.
They are small spiders with rather little hair. They build burrows with a trapdoor. Some species live in tree fern stems.
Tree trapdoor spiders occur in South America, Africa and Australia, Madagascar, New Zealand and New Caledonia.
As of September 2017[update], the following genera were accepted by the World Spider Catalog:
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