The Mygalomorphae, or mygalomorphs, are an infraorder of spiders, and comprise one of three major groups of living spiders with over 3,000 species, found...

diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their close kin), where they point straight down. Araneomorphs...

Megamonodontium mccluskyi (Mygalomorphae: Barychelidae) is an extinct species of spider from the Miocene (16–11 million years ago). Its fossil was discovered...

surviving suborder, the Mesothelae. The main groups of modern spiders, Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae, first appeared in the Triassic period, more than...

Theraphosidae, although many other members of the same infraorder (Mygalomorphae) are commonly referred to as "tarantulas" or "false tarantulas". Some...

species, Rosamygale grauvogeli. It is the oldest known member of the Mygalomorphae, one of the three main divisions of spiders, which includes well known...

(2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology. 69 (4): 671–707. doi:10...

projecting from the middle of their second pair of legs. Like other Mygalomorphae – an infraorder of spiders that includes the tropical tarantulas – these...

Agelenidae, including Hololena curta funnel-web tarantulas (suborder Mygalomorphae): family Atracidae, Australian funnel-web spiders, some of which produce...

red-tinged jaws. Though they resemble most genera of the infraorder Mygalomorphae, they can be easily distinguished by the large pair of chelicerae, as...

lizard-eating spiders. Commonly, they are confused with baboon spiders from the Mygalomorphae infraorder, which are not closely related. More than a thousand Sparassidae...

are usually treated as one suborder, Mesothelae, and two infraorders, Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae, grouped into the suborder Opisthothelae. The Mesothelae...

Pocock divided his Opisthothelae into two groups, which he called Mygalomorphae and Arachnomorphae (now Araneomorphae), implicitly adopting the phylogeny...

Subphylum: Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Infraorder: Mygalomorphae Family: Theraphosidae Genus: Theraphosa Species: T. blondi Binomial...

Cyrtaucheniidae, known as wafer-lid trapdoor spiders, are a widespread family of Mygalomorphae spiders. Wafer-lid spiders are generally large and range in color between...

Opisthothelae is a suborder of spiders within the order Araneae, containing Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae, but excluding Mesothelae. The Opisthothelae are sometimes...

Fernando (2002). "Reproductive Biology of Uruguayan Theraphosids (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)". The Journal of Arachnology. 30 (3): 571–587. doi:10...

body axis. This kind of chelicera occurs in the Liphistiomorphae and Mygalomorphae spiders and in the related orders Amblypygi, Schizomida and Uropygi...

Mygalomorphae Araneomorphae...

Wishart; David M. Rowell (2008). "Trapdoor Spiders of the genus Misgolas (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from eastern New South Wales, with notes on genetic variation"...

Subphylum: Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Infraorder: Mygalomorphae Family: Theraphosidae Subfamily: Harpactirinae Pocock, 1897 Genera See...

Subphylum: Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Infraorder: Mygalomorphae Family: Theraphosidae Genus: Pterinochilus Species: P. murinus Binomial...

species of the genus Chilobrachys Karsh, 1892 from Thailand (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae)". ZooKeys (1180): 105–128. Bibcode:2023ZooK.1180..105C...

trapdoor to help them ambush prey. Several families within the infraorder Mygalomorphae contain trapdoor spiders: Actinopodidae, a family otherwise known as...

distantly related families) are a group of spiders in the infraorder Mygalomorphae, that have two pairs of booklungs, and chelicerae (fangs) that move...

Mecicobothriidae. Dwarf tarantulas are one of several families of the suborder Mygalomorphae; this larger group also includes the true tarantulas. Dwarf tarantulas...

Mygalomorphae Araneomorphae...

Records of the South Australian Museum, 7: 249–269 Main, B.Y. (1985), "Mygalomorphae", in Walton, D.W. (ed.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia, vol. 3,...

(2021). "Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Cryptoforis (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Euoplini): documenting an enigmatic lineage from the eastern...

Subphylum: Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Infraorder: Mygalomorphae Family: Theraphosidae Genus: Dolichothele Species: D. diamantinensis...