Ummidia aedificatoria

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Ummidia aedificatoria
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Halonoproctidae
Genus: Ummidia
Species:
U. aedificatoria
Binomial name
Ummidia aedificatoria
(Westwood, 1840)
Synonyms
  • Actinopus aedificatorius
  • Cteniza aedificatoria
  • Pachylomerus aedificatorius
  • Pachylomerus occidentalis
  • Sphodros aedificatorius

Ummidia aedificatoria is a species of trap-door spider found in Portugal, Spain and Morocco.[1] It builds a shallow silk-lined trapdoor burrow, similar to those of and U. picea.[2] Only three female specimens have been positively identified, all ranging from 18 to 29 millimeters in length.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Ummidia aedificatoria". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  2. ^ Westwood, J. O. (1840). "Observations on the species of spiders which inhabit cylindrical tubes covered by a moveable trap-door". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 3: 170–182.
  3. ^ Decae, A. E. (2010). "The genus Ummidia Thorell 1875 in the western Mediterranean, a review (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 38: 328–340.

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