Trapdoor spiders are a broad group of small to medium sized mygalomorph spiders that specialise indigging burrows in soil and closing the entrance with a hinged door. The name does not refer to a single species,but to many related spiders in families such as Idiopidae and Ctenizidae that share s...
The Sydney Brown Trapdoor Spider is a medium sized, burrow dwelling mygalomorph from eastern Australia.The name is commonly applied to brown trapdoor spiders that live in and around the Sydney region, withArbanitis rapax often treated as a representative species. These spiders belong to the family...