List of trapdoor spiders

Trapdoor spider is a common name that is sometimes used to refer to different spiders, or rather several different groups.

Several families that contain trapdoor spiders within the infraorder Mygalomorphae:

• Actinopodidae, a family otherwise known as 'mouse-spiders', in South America and Australia
• Barychelidae, a family of 'brush-footed trapdoor spiders' with pantropical distribution
• Ctenizidae, a family of 'cork-lid trapdoor spiders' in tropical and subtropical regions
• Cyrtaucheniidae, a family of 'wafer-lid trapdoor spiders, with wide distribution except cooler regions
• Euctenizidae, a family of spiders that make wafer-like or cork-like trapdoors
• Halonoproctidae, a family of spiders that make wafer-like or cork-like trapdoors and includes the phragmotic genus Cyclocosmia
• Idiopidae, a family of 'spurred-trapdoor spiders' or 'armoured trapdoors' mostly in Southern Hemisphere

• Migidae, also known as 'ridge fanged trapdoor spiders' or 'tree trapdoor spiders', in the Southern Hemisphere
• Nemesiidae, a family of 'tube trapdoor spiders', with both tropical and temperate species worldwide
• Theraphosidae, a family of tarantulas (where just a few species make trapdoors), also with wide distribution

also

• Liphistiidae, an unusual and unique family of spiders with armoured abdomens from Southeast Asia, China and Japan