superfamily
Atypoidea
Atypoidea
Field notes
Atypoidea is a clade of mygalomorph spiders, one of the two main groups into which the mygalomorphs are divided (the other being Avicularioidea). It has been treated at the rank of superfamily. It contains five families of spiders:
Atypidae Thorell, 1870
Antrodiaetidae Gertsch, 1940
Mecicobothriidae Holmberg, 1882
Hexurellidae Hedin & Bond, 2019
Megahexuridae Hedin & Bond,2019
Spiders from atypoid families live in burrows and use silk to build many different types of burrow entrance constructs, including purse webs, trapdoors, funnel-and-sheet webs, turrets and silken collars.
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Range
Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided
Most observed native Atypoidea All
Native to the US, by observations.
