- 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...
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spiders do not have antennae. In all
except the most
primitive group, the
Mesothelae,
spiders have the most
centralized nervous systems of all arthropods,...
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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...
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order Araneae,
containing Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae, but
excluding Mesothelae. The
Opisthothelae are
sometimes presented as an
unranked clade and sometimes...
- 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...
- one suborder,
Mesothelae, and two infraorders,
Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae,
grouped into the
suborder Opisthothelae. The
Mesothelae, with
about 140...
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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...
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distribution There is also one
family of
trapdoor spiders in the
suborder Mesothelae: Liphistiidae, a
family of
spiders with
armoured abdomens from Southeast...
- ISBN 978-0-19-973482-5 Haupt, J. (2004), The
Mesothelae – a
monograph of an
exceptional group of
spiders (Araneae:
Mesothelae), Zoologica, Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart...
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commonly called trapdoor spiders. Like the "primitive"
suborder of
spiders Mesothelae, they have two
pairs of book lungs, and downward-pointing chelicerae....
