Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Mygalomorphae
- Family: Euctenizidae
- Genus: Myrmekiaphila
Other Common Names
Wafer-lid Trapdoor Spiders
Author
Atkinson, 1886
Sightings Overview
There have been 27 confirmed sightings of Myrmekiaphila (Wafer-lid Trapdoor Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on November 14, 2024 by Spider ID member 2gooder1. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 27 sightings because of certain Myrmekiaphila sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 0% of the time, Myrmekiaphila spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 27)
- Sex: 1 female and 19 male.
- Environment: Myrmekiaphila has been sighted 13 times outdoors, and 16 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (4). Ground layer (7). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Forest (1).
Location and Range
Myrmekiaphila (Wafer-lid Trapdoor Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: United States.
Myrmekiaphila has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.
Seasonality
Myrmekiaphila has been primarily sighted during the month of March.
- January:
- February: 4
- March: 13
- April: 3
- May: 3
- June:
- July:
- August:
- September:
- October:
- November: 2
- December: 2