- The
Mesothelae are a
suborder of
spiders (order Araneae) that
includes a
single extant family, Liphistiidae, and a
number of
extinct families. This suborder...
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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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order Araneae,
containing Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae, but
excluding Mesothelae. The
Opisthothelae are
sometimes presented as an
unranked clade and sometimes...
- one suborder,
Mesothelae, and two infraorders,
Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae,
grouped into the
suborder Opisthothelae. The
Mesothelae, with
about 140...
- They are
among the most
basal living spiders,
belonging to the
suborder Mesothelae. In ****an, the
Kimura spider (Heptathela kimurai) is well known. In 2022...
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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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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...
- 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...
- Photos". livescience.com. 19 June 2019. Foelix, Rainer; Erb,
Bruno (2010). "
Mesothelae have
venom glands".
Journal of Arachnology. 38 (3): 596–598. doi:10.1636/B10-30...
