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Theraphosa blondi, commonly known as the Goliath Birdeater, is a tarantula species native to northern South America. It’s notable for being the largest spider by weight and leg span, reaching impressive sizes. This mygalomorph arachnid belongs to the Theraphosidae family. Primarily found in rainfore...
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 is a massive, heavily built tarantula native to northeastern South America, recognized as a distinct species in 2010 for its dark burgundy hue.
Porrhothele antipodiana, the black tunnelweb spider, is a large mygalomorph native to New Zealand that builds silken tube webs under logs and rocks.
Wendilgarda is a genus of theridiosomatid spiders distinguished by unusual thread-based webs built over streams in tropical forests.
Bothriocyrtum californicum is a trapdoor spider first described by Eugène Simon in 1891, notable for its strong, soil-covered trapdoors that conceal burrows dug into the hillsides of California.
Ummidia audouini is a trapdoor spider of North America and the Mediterranean that constructs silk-lined burrows with hinged lids to ambush ground-level prey.
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 Pacific Northwest mygalomorph spider in the family Mecicobothriidae, notable as one of the few funnel-web-style tarantulas native to temperate North America.
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.
