- The
Mesothelae are a
suborder of
spiders (order Araneae). As of April 2024[update], two
extant families were
accepted by the
World Spider Catalog, Liphistiidae...
-
spiders do not have antennae. In all
except the most
primitive group, the
Mesothelae,
spiders have the most
centralized nervous systems of all arthropods,...
-
family contains the most
basal living spiders,
belonging to the
suborder Mesothelae. The
family has also been cir****scribed more
broadly to
include the family...
-
order Araneae,
containing Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae, but
excluding Mesothelae. The
Opisthothelae are
sometimes presented as an
unranked clade and sometimes...
- one suborder,
Mesothelae, and two infraorders,
Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae,
grouped into the
suborder Opisthothelae. The
Mesothelae, with
about 140...
-
after Arika Kimura, who
collected it in 1920. It
belongs to the sub-order
Mesothelae (primitive
burrowing spiders) and can
reach up to 3 cm in length. Its...
- April 2024[update] was
accepted by the
World Spider Catalog. It is
placed in
suborder Mesothelae,
which contains the most
basal living spiders. The
group was
first proposed...
-
distribution There is also one
family of
trapdoor spiders in the
suborder Mesothelae: Liphistiidae, a
family of
spiders with
armoured abdomens from Southeast...
-
commonly called trapdoor spiders. Like the "primitive"
suborder of
spiders Mesothelae, they have two
pairs of book lungs, and downward-pointing chelicerae....
- Photos". livescience.com. 19 June 2019. Foelix, Rainer; Erb,
Bruno (2010). "
Mesothelae have
venom glands".
Journal of Arachnology. 38 (3): 596–598. doi:10.1636/B10-30...
