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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Spider (section Mesothelae)
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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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...
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family contains the most basal living spiders, belonging to the suborder Mesothelae. The family has also been circumscribed 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...
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Spider taxonomy (section Suborder Mesothelae)
one suborder, Mesothelae, and two infraorders, Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae, grouped into the suborder Opisthothelae. The Mesothelae, with about 140...
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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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distribution There is also one family of trapdoor spiders in the suborder Mesothelae: Liphistiidae, a family of spiders with armoured abdomens from Southeast...
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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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commonly called trapdoor spiders. Like the "primitive" suborder of spiders Mesothelae, they have two pairs of book lungs, and downward-pointing chelicerae....
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