| Tree trapdoor spiders | |
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| Paramigas perroti | |
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| Bertmainius tumidus from Australia | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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.23
Genera
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female Calathotarsus simoni -
Moggridgea sp. -
Thyropoeus mirandus
As of January 2026, this family includes eleven genera and 108 species:2
- Bertmainius Harvey, Main, Rix & Cooper, 2015 – Australia
- Calathotarsus Simon, 1903 – Argentina, Chile
- Goloboffia Griswold & Ledford, 2001 – Chile
- Heteromigas Hogg, 1902 – Australia
- Mallecomigas Goloboff & Platnick, 1987 – Chile
- Micromesomma Pocock, 1895 – Madagascar
- Migas L. Koch, 1873 – Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand
- Moggridgea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875 – Africa, Yemen, Australia
- Paramigas Pocock, 1895 – Madagascar
- Poecilomigas Simon, 1903 – Tanzania, South Africa
- Thyropoeus Pocock, 1895 – Madagascar
References
References
- Griswold, C. E. (1998). "The nest and male of the trap-door spider Poecilomigas basilleupi Benoit, 1962 (Araneae, Migidae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 26: 142–148.
- "Family Migidae Simon, 1889". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-01-17.
- Raven, R.J. (1984). "Systematics and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Migidae (Araneae) in Australia". Aust. J. Zool. 32 (3): 379–390. doi:10.1071/ZO9840379.
- Zapfe, H. (1961). La Familia Migidae en Chile. Invest. Zool. Chil. 7: 151-157