Idiopidae
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Members of the spider family Idiopidae (superfamily Idiopoidea) have a large body that often looks rather like a tarantula.
The males have a spur on their legs, which it will show if provoked. They build burrows, and some species close these with a door.
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- Aganippe O. P-Cambridge, 1877 (Australia)
- Anidiops Pocock, 1897 (Australia)
- Arbanitis L. Koch, 1874 (Australia)
- Blakistonia Hogg, 1902 (Australia)
- Cantuaria Hogg, 1902 (New Zealand)
- Cataxia Rainbow, 1914 (Australia)
- Ctenolophus Purcell, 1904 (South Africa)
- Eucyrtops Pocock, 1897 (Australia)
- Euoplos Rainbow, 1914 (Australia)
- Galeosoma Purcell, 1903 (southern Africa)
- Genysa Simon, 1889 (Madagascar)
- Gorgyrella Purcell, 1902 (southern Africa)
- Heligmomerus Simon, 1892 (Africa, India, Sri Lanka)
- Hiboka Fage, 1922 (Madagascar)
- Idiops Perty, 1833 (South America, Africa, South Asia, Middle East)
- Idiosoma Ausserer, 1871 (Australia)
- Misgolas Karsch, 1878 (Australia)
- Neocteniza Pocock, 1895 (Central and South America)
- Prothemenops Schwendinger, 1991 (Thailand)
- Scalidognathus Karsch, 1891 (India, Sri Lanka, Seychelles)
- Segregara Tucker, 1917 (South Africa)
- Titanidiops Simon, 1903 (Africa, Canary Islands)
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