I've just learned that some authorities describe the group Araneomorphae as 'true spiders', as distinct from Mygalomorphae (presumably fake spiders) like tarantulas and trap-door spiders, which have downward-pointing fangs.
Also, the original tarantulas are no longer part of the 'tarantula' group.
Also, the original tarantulas are no longer part of the 'tarantula' group.
September 29, 2026 at 7:15 AM
I've just learned that some authorities describe the group Araneomorphae as 'true spiders', as distinct from Mygalomorphae (presumably fake spiders) like tarantulas and trap-door spiders, which have downward-pointing fangs.
Also, the original tarantulas are no longer part of the 'tarantula' group.
Also, the original tarantulas are no longer part of the 'tarantula' group.
🕷️ My young friend, Mr. Bubble
🇻🇪 Green Bottle Blue #Tarantula ( #Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantulas #spider #spiders #nature #arachnid #theraphosidae #mygalomorphae
🇻🇪 Green Bottle Blue #Tarantula ( #Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantulas #spider #spiders #nature #arachnid #theraphosidae #mygalomorphae
February 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🕷️ My young friend, Mr. Bubble
🇻🇪 Green Bottle Blue #Tarantula ( #Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantulas #spider #spiders #nature #arachnid #theraphosidae #mygalomorphae
🇻🇪 Green Bottle Blue #Tarantula ( #Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantulas #spider #spiders #nature #arachnid #theraphosidae #mygalomorphae
🕷️My beloved young friend FLUFF/Y ❤️
🇧🇷 Brazilian whiteknee tarantula (Acanthoscurria geniculata)
#tarantula #spider #friend #acanthoscurriageniculata #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #acanthoscurria #whitekneetarantula #Brasil
🇧🇷 Brazilian whiteknee tarantula (Acanthoscurria geniculata)
#tarantula #spider #friend #acanthoscurriageniculata #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #acanthoscurria #whitekneetarantula #Brasil
November 14, 2024 at 12:26 PM
🕷️My beloved young friend FLUFF/Y ❤️
🇧🇷 Brazilian whiteknee tarantula (Acanthoscurria geniculata)
#tarantula #spider #friend #acanthoscurriageniculata #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #acanthoscurria #whitekneetarantula #Brasil
🇧🇷 Brazilian whiteknee tarantula (Acanthoscurria geniculata)
#tarantula #spider #friend #acanthoscurriageniculata #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #acanthoscurria #whitekneetarantula #Brasil
Are Nemesiidae your thing?
A lecture by Vera Opatova: Phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic origins of the spider family Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)
A lecture by Vera Opatova: Phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic origins of the spider family Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)
September 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Are Nemesiidae your thing?
A lecture by Vera Opatova: Phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic origins of the spider family Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)
A lecture by Vera Opatova: Phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic origins of the spider family Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)
There are dozens of documented interactions across multiple species of tarantula & frog that suggest stable mutualism.
Some frogs even seem to have adapted "don't eat me" toxic secretions that are potent for spiders, which may be a sign of co-evolution between species.
Spider-domesticated frogs!
Some frogs even seem to have adapted "don't eat me" toxic secretions that are potent for spiders, which may be a sign of co-evolution between species.
Spider-domesticated frogs!
An extensive review of mutualistic and similar ecological associations involving tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with a new hypothesis on the evolution of their hirsuteness
Mutualistic and similar ecological associations between tarantulas (Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae) and other animals are reviewed. Such associations are found to occur in at least nine theraphosid s...
www.tandfonline.com
June 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
There are dozens of documented interactions across multiple species of tarantula & frog that suggest stable mutualism.
Some frogs even seem to have adapted "don't eat me" toxic secretions that are potent for spiders, which may be a sign of co-evolution between species.
Spider-domesticated frogs!
Some frogs even seem to have adapted "don't eat me" toxic secretions that are potent for spiders, which may be a sign of co-evolution between species.
Spider-domesticated frogs!
🕷️My beloved young friend Mr. Bubble
🇻🇪 Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantula #chromatopelmacyaneopubescens #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #greenbottlebluetarantula #Venezuela
🇻🇪 Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantula #chromatopelmacyaneopubescens #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #greenbottlebluetarantula #Venezuela
November 28, 2024 at 10:49 AM
🕷️My beloved young friend Mr. Bubble
🇻🇪 Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantula #chromatopelmacyaneopubescens #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #greenbottlebluetarantula #Venezuela
🇻🇪 Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantula #chromatopelmacyaneopubescens #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #greenbottlebluetarantula #Venezuela
🕷️My beloved young friend Mr. Bubble ❤️
🇻🇪 Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantula #spider #friend #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #chromatopelmacyaneopubescens
🇻🇪 Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantula #spider #friend #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #chromatopelmacyaneopubescens
January 9, 2026 at 9:31 AM
🕷️My beloved young friend Mr. Bubble ❤️
🇻🇪 Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantula #spider #friend #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #chromatopelmacyaneopubescens
🇻🇪 Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantula #spider #friend #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #chromatopelmacyaneopubescens
🕷️My beloved young friend Mr. Bubble ❤️
🇻🇪 Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantula #spider #friend #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #chromatopelmacyaneopubescens
🇻🇪 Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantula #spider #friend #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #chromatopelmacyaneopubescens
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
🕷️My beloved young friend Mr. Bubble ❤️
🇻🇪 Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantula #spider #friend #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #chromatopelmacyaneopubescens
🇻🇪 Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
#tarantula #spider #friend #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #chromatopelmacyaneopubescens
hey, it's a mygalomorphae!
October 28, 2024 at 4:08 AM
hey, it's a mygalomorphae!
it also depends on if they are Araneomorphae (true spiders) or Mygalomorphae (Tarantulas/trapdoors/funnelwebs etc.) Mygalomorphae, tend to live much longer (10,20,even 40 years for one female trapdoor spider) But the males sadly mature and pass a fair bit sooner than the males. 😔
June 10, 2026 at 1:55 AM
it also depends on if they are Araneomorphae (true spiders) or Mygalomorphae (Tarantulas/trapdoors/funnelwebs etc.) Mygalomorphae, tend to live much longer (10,20,even 40 years for one female trapdoor spider) But the males sadly mature and pass a fair bit sooner than the males. 😔
Old pics. Female Linothele fallax (Curtain web) Whilst not tarantulas, they are also Mygalomorphae. I miss her. She was a stunner. From when I got her (about 1cm) to in her adult Queen glory! (Nearly 7")😍
March 5, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Old pics. Female Linothele fallax (Curtain web) Whilst not tarantulas, they are also Mygalomorphae. I miss her. She was a stunner. From when I got her (about 1cm) to in her adult Queen glory! (Nearly 7")😍
Mygalomorphs are a group of stocky, sometimes giant spiders that include tarantulas. A team of scientists in Ecuador is trying to find and describe these animals before they disappear.
Learn more about their work:
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/sat...
Learn more about their work:
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/sat...
February 8, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Mygalomorphs are a group of stocky, sometimes giant spiders that include tarantulas. A team of scientists in Ecuador is trying to find and describe these animals before they disappear.
Learn more about their work:
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/sat...
Learn more about their work:
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/sat...
Cryptic spiders 🕷️❓
Congratulations to #CEB member Jackson Rendall on their recent publication in Austral Entomology (@austentsoc.bsky.social) about the natural history of the South Australian spiny trapdoor spider (Blakistonia aurea).
Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Congratulations to #CEB member Jackson Rendall on their recent publication in Austral Entomology (@austentsoc.bsky.social) about the natural history of the South Australian spiny trapdoor spider (Blakistonia aurea).
Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 18, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Cryptic spiders 🕷️❓
Congratulations to #CEB member Jackson Rendall on their recent publication in Austral Entomology (@austentsoc.bsky.social) about the natural history of the South Australian spiny trapdoor spider (Blakistonia aurea).
Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Congratulations to #CEB member Jackson Rendall on their recent publication in Austral Entomology (@austentsoc.bsky.social) about the natural history of the South Australian spiny trapdoor spider (Blakistonia aurea).
Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Mygalomorphae eu passo. Nunca trabalhei com elas.
September 11, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Mygalomorphae eu passo. Nunca trabalhei com elas.
Hum, não sei se acho o segundo um bom nome, considerando que tem outras aranhas - inclusive Mygalomorphae - que tbm apresentam fiandeiras mais alongadas
September 4, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Hum, não sei se acho o segundo um bom nome, considerando que tem outras aranhas - inclusive Mygalomorphae - que tbm apresentam fiandeiras mais alongadas
Mygalomorphae, by Cooinoquo
from the album The warehouse
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March 9, 2025 at 5:06 AM
it vaguely irritates me that in english, Mygalomorphae spiders are all called tarantulas...
because the true tarantula is a Lycosidae spider (specifically Lycosa tarantula)...
french has the distinction (mygale vs tarentule) and it makes sense!!
because the true tarantula is a Lycosidae spider (specifically Lycosa tarantula)...
french has the distinction (mygale vs tarentule) and it makes sense!!
March 6, 2026 at 8:17 AM
it vaguely irritates me that in english, Mygalomorphae spiders are all called tarantulas...
because the true tarantula is a Lycosidae spider (specifically Lycosa tarantula)...
french has the distinction (mygale vs tarentule) and it makes sense!!
because the true tarantula is a Lycosidae spider (specifically Lycosa tarantula)...
french has the distinction (mygale vs tarentule) and it makes sense!!
Adult female Linothele fallax. Not a tarantula, but still a Mygalomorphae. 🥰
February 7, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Adult female Linothele fallax. Not a tarantula, but still a Mygalomorphae. 🥰
They give them abdomen legs. ABDOMEN LEGS! Cephalothorax just wasted. A sticky web attack like a bolas? A mygalomorphae doing that? >:C
July 6, 2026 at 11:17 PM
They give them abdomen legs. ABDOMEN LEGS! Cephalothorax just wasted. A sticky web attack like a bolas? A mygalomorphae doing that? >:C
I think in Mygalomorphae the maxillae are more like hairy plates but I'll try to double check once I'm in the office today
April 17, 2026 at 11:33 AM
I think in Mygalomorphae the maxillae are more like hairy plates but I'll try to double check once I'm in the office today
A large brush-footed trapdoor spider (Mygalomorphae: Barychelidae) from the Miocene of Australia
Abstract. The aridification of the Australian continent led to the diversification of mygalomorph spiders in the Miocene, but a depauperate fossil record has ma
academic.oup.com
September 22, 2023 at 10:17 PM
Let's talk about Hypochilus!🧪 This small family of leggy, lampshade-webbed weirdos were long thought of as a "missing link" between the two main types of spiders, Mygalomorphae (tarantulas, trapdoor spiders, & their kin) and the "true spiders," Araneomorphae (93% of the spider species alive today).
Thanks to a tip from @ellipsoptera I found lampshade spiders! I'm not sure what I was expecting exactly, but they were large, leggy, and bizarre - a bit prehistoric, even. Fortunately their webs stand out, because they blend in well! Quite a sight. Glad I got to find some on my last day in NC! 🧪
June 22, 2023 at 3:13 PM
Let's talk about Hypochilus!🧪 This small family of leggy, lampshade-webbed weirdos were long thought of as a "missing link" between the two main types of spiders, Mygalomorphae (tarantulas, trapdoor spiders, & their kin) and the "true spiders," Araneomorphae (93% of the spider species alive today).
Old pics. Liphistius ornatus "Suwat Ornate Armored Trapdoor Spider" These beauts are neither Mygalomorphae nor Araneomorphae. Instead they said 'screw evolution' and went their own way to become Mesothelae. I sadly only had this one for about 12 months before it matured as a male...
March 5, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Old pics. Liphistius ornatus "Suwat Ornate Armored Trapdoor Spider" These beauts are neither Mygalomorphae nor Araneomorphae. Instead they said 'screw evolution' and went their own way to become Mesothelae. I sadly only had this one for about 12 months before it matured as a male...
Hidden in the plains: Two new extra-andean species of Euathlus (Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) from Argentina with comments on their sexual behaviour
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Hidden in the plains: Two new extra‐andean species of Euathlus (Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) from Argentina with comments on their sexual behaviour
Two new species of Euathlus (Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 1875, 25, 125) from Argentina are described. Euathlus ameghinoi sp. n. and Euathlus ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Hidden in the plains: Two new extra-andean species of Euathlus (Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) from Argentina with comments on their sexual behaviour
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...