- 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...
-
spiders do not have antennae. In all
except the most
primitive group, the
Mesothelae,
spiders have the most
centralized nervous systems of all arthropods,...
-
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 194...
-
family contains the most
basal living spiders,
belonging to the
suborder Mesothelae. The
family has also been cir****scribed more
broadly to
include the family...
- but
there are wide
variations and this
fusion is very
limited in the
Mesothelae,
which are
regarded as the
oldest and most
basal group of spiders. Most...
-
distribution There is also one
family of
trapdoor spiders in the
suborder Mesothelae: Liphistiidae, a
family of
spiders with
armoured abdomens from Southeast...
-
commonly called trapdoor spiders. Like the "primitive"
suborder of
spiders Mesothelae, they have two
pairs of book lungs, and downward-pointing chelicerae....
-
located in the
middle on the
ventral side of the abdomen. The
suborder Mesothelae is
unique in
having only two
types of silk
glands –
thought to be the...
- of Batu
Caves Trapdoor Spider (Liphistius
batuensis Abraham (Araneae,
Mesothelae)): A
preliminary survey. 61: 121–132".
Malayan Nature Journal. 62 (1):...
