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Theraphosa apophysis, also known as the Goliath tiger tarantula, is a massive spider native to Venezuela and surrounding South American regions. It’s notable for being one of the largest spiders in the world by weight and size, belonging to the Mygalomorphae group. These large tarantulas are primari...

Missulena occatoria, commonly known as the mouse spider, is a large mygalomorph spider found in coastal Australia. Notably, this spider is one of the most venomous land spiders globally due to its potent neurotoxic venom. Males exhibit a distinctive bright red head and fangs. It poses a serious risk...

The cork-lid trapdoor spider (Aptostichus simus) is a species of mygalomorph spider native to the coastal dune environments of California. Like other members of its infraorder, it is a fossorial species that constructs deep, underground burrows lined with silk. The spider is distinguished by the thi...

Bothriocyrtum californicum is a large mygalomorph spider native to California and parts of the western United States. Like other trapdoor spiders, it constructs a burrow in the ground sealed with a hinged, camouflaged door made of soil and silk. The spider waits beneath this door and ambushes insect...

Augacephalus ezendami is a species of theraphosid spider, commonly known as a tarantula or baboon spider, endemic to southern Africa. First scientifically described by arachnologist Richard Gallon in 2010, the species is primarily located in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa. Like...

Atypus piceus is a European species of purseweb spider in the mygalomorph family Atypidae, formally described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1802. Like other Atypus spiders, it lives in a silk-lined burrow connected to a camouflaged tube at the ground surface; passing prey is seized through the t...

The eastern mouse spider, Missulena bradleyi, is a robust Australian mygalomorph spider found mainly along the eastern part of the continent. It lives in burrows, and wandering males are encountered more often than the more sedentary females. The species has large fangs and medically significant ven...

The Burgundy Goliath Birdeater, Theraphosa stirmi, is a large tarantula from northern South America. It has a heavily built body and dark burgundy hairs, which distinguish it from some related Goliath bird-eating spiders. The species is terrestrial and spends much of its time in or near a burrow, fe...

Porrhothele antipodiana, commonly called the black tunnelweb spider, is a mygalomorph spider native to New Zealand. It constructs a silken tube retreat, commonly beneath logs, rocks, or other sheltered surfaces, with webbing extending around the entrance. The species belongs to the genus Porrhothele...

Wendilgarda sp. denotes an unidentified species or specimen in Wendilgarda, a genus of tropical spiders in the family Theridiosomatidae. Members of this group are associated with streams and construct reduced webs from horizontal support lines and sticky threads that descend to, or attach to, the wa...

Bothriocyrtum californicum is a mygalomorph trapdoor spider found in California. It lives in a soil burrow closed by a strong, soil-covered door, which helps conceal the entrance while the spider remains below ground and waits for prey. The species was described by Eugène Simon in 1891 and belongs t...

Ummidia audouini is a species of trapdoor spider in the family Halonoproctidae. Like other trapdoor spiders, it lives in a burrow that is closed by a hinged door and can remain concealed while waiting for prey to pass nearby. The species is associated with parts of North America and the Mediterranea...

Calisoga longitarsus is a California mygalomorph in the family Nemesiidae, inhabiting dry grasslands and chaparral as one of the region's native funnel-web relatives.

Hexura picea is a small mygalomorph spider in the family Mecicobothriidae, a group sometimes called funnel-web tarantulas or dwarf tarantulas. It is native to parts of the Pacific Northwest of North America and is associated with temperate habitats rather than tropical rainforest. The species is dis...

Aganippe subtristis is a trapdoor spider described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1914, a mygalomorph native to Australia that constructs a strong, camouflaged burrow lid to ambush ground prey.