Antrodiaetus is a genus of American and Japanese folding trapdoor spiders first described by Anton Ausserer in 1871.[2] The name is a combination of the Greek "antrodiaitos" (αντροδιαιτος), meaning "living in caves", "antron" (αντρον), meaning "cave", and "diaita (διαιτα), meaning "way of life, dwelling".[3]
| Antrodiaetus | |
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| Female A. unicolor. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Antrodiaetidae |
| Genus: | Antrodiaetus Ausserer, 1871[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. unicolor (Hentz, 1842) | |
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Species
editAs of May 2019[update] the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]
- Antrodiaetus apachecus Coyle, 1971 — USA
- Antrodiaetus ashlandensis Cokendolpher, Peck & Niwa, 2005 — USA
- Antrodiaetus cerberus Coyle, 1971 — USA
- Antrodiaetus coylei Cokendolpher, Peck & Niwa, 2005 — USA
- Antrodiaetus effeminatus Cokendolpher, Peck & Niwa, 2005 — USA
- Antrodiaetus hageni (Chamberlin, 1917) — USA
- Antrodiaetus lincolnianus (Worley, 1928) — USA
- Antrodiaetus metapacificus Cokendolpher, Peck & Niwa, 2005 — USA
- Antrodiaetus microunicolor Hendrixson & Bond, 2005 — USA
- Antrodiaetus montanus (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935) — USA
- Antrodiaetus occultus Coyle, 1971 — USA
- Antrodiaetus pacificus (Simon, 1884) — USA
- Antrodiaetus pugnax (Chamberlin, 1917) — USA
- Antrodiaetus robustus (Simon, 1891) — USA
- Antrodiaetus roretzi (L. Koch, 1878) — Japan
- Antrodiaetus stygius Coyle, 1971 — USA
- Antrodiaetus unicolor (Hentz, 1842) — USA
- Antrodiaetus yesoensis (Uyemura, 1942) — Japan
References
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Antrodiaetus Ausserer, 1871". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ^ Ausserer, A. (1871). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 21: 117–224.
- ^ "Genus Antrodiaetus". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-09.