Barychelidae

Most spiders in this family build trapdoor burrows. For example, the {{convert|20|mm}} long Sipalolasma builds its burrow in rotted wood, with a hinged trapdoor at each end. The {{convert|10|mm}} long Idioctis builds its burrow approximately {{convert|5|cm}} deep, just below the high tide level, sealing the opening with a thin trapdoor.{{cite book |last1=Murphy |first1=Frances |last2=Murphy |first2=John |date=2000 |title=An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia |publisher=Malaysian Nature Society |location=Kuala Lumpur }}

Some species avoid flooding by plugging their burrows, while others can avoid drowning by trapping air bubbles within the hairs covering their bodies.{{Cite journal|last=Bristowe|first=W.S.|date=September 1930|title=XXXIV.— Notes on the biology of spiders .—II. Aquatic spiders|journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History|language=en|volume=6|issue=33|pages=343–347|doi=10.1080/00222933008673222|issn=0374-5481}}{{Example needed|date=May 2018}} Some members of this group have a rake on the front surface of their chelicerae used for compacting burrow walls.{{cite book| first1=Herbert W.| last1=Levi| first2=Lorna R.| last2=Levi| title=Spiders and Their Kin| page=20}} These spiders can run up glass like tarantulas, and some can stridulate, though it isn't audible to humans.{{cite journal |last=Raven |first=R.J. |date=1994 |title=Mygalomorph spiders of the Barychelidae in Australia and the Western Pacific |journal=Memoirs of the Queensland Museum |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=291–706}}

Barychelids are found in Australia, New Caledonia, South America, Africa, Madagascar, India, New Guinea, and Pacific islands.

{{Main|List of Barychelidae species}}

{{as of|2023|11}}, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:{{cite web| title=Family: Barychelidae Simon, 1889| website=World Spider Catalog| access-date=2019-04-19| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/family/13}}

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• Adelonychia Walsh, 1890 – India
• Ammonius Thorell, 1899 — Cameroon
• Atrophothele Pocock, 1903 — Yemen
• Aurecocrypta Raven, 1994 — Australia
• Barycheloides Raven, 1994 — New Caledonia
• Barychelus Simon, 1889 — New Caledonia
• Cosmopelma Simon, 1889 — Brazil
• Cyphonisia Simon, 1889 — Africa
• Encyocrypta Simon, 1889 — New Caledonia
• Eubrachycercus Pocock, 1897 — Somalia
• Fijocrypta Raven, 1994 — Fiji
• Idioctis L. Koch, 1874 — Oceania, Africa, Singapore
• Idiommata Ausserer, 1871 — Australia
• Idiophthalma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 — South America
• Mandjelia Raven, 1994 — Australia
• Monodontium Kulczyński, 1908 — Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia
• Moruga Raven, 1994 — Australia
• Natgeogia Raven, 1994 — New Caledonia
• Neodiplothele Mello-Leitão, 1917 — Brazil
• Nihoa Raven & Churchill, 1992 — Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu
• Orstom Raven, 1994 — New Caledonia
• Ozicrypta Raven, 1994 — Australia
• Paracenobiopelma Feio, 1952 — Brazil
• Pisenor Simon, 1889 — Africa
• Plagiobothrus Karsch, 1892 — Sri Lanka
• Questocrypta Raven, 1994 — New Caledonia
• Rhianodes Raven, 1985 — Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines
• Sason Simon, 1887 — Asia, Oceania, Seychelles
• Sasonichus Pocock, 1900 — India
• Seqocrypta Raven, 1994 — Australia
• Sipalolasma Simon, 1892 — Asia, Africa
• Strophaeus Ausserer, 1875 — Brazil, Peru, Panama
• Synothele Simon, 1908 — Australia
• Tigidia Simon, 1892 — Madagascar, Mauritius
• Trittame L. Koch, 1874 — Australia
• Troglothele Fage, 1929 — Cuba
• Tungari Raven, 1994 — Australia
• Zophorame Raven, 1990 — Australia
• Zophoryctes Simon, 1902 — Madagascar
• †Megamonodontium McCurry, Frese & Raven, 2023

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• Raven, R.J. (1986): A revision of the spider genus Sason Simon (Sasoninae, Barychelidae, Mygalomorphae) and its historical biogeography. Journal of Arachnology 14: 47–70. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v14_n1/JoA_v14_p47.pdf PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001210459/http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v14_n1/JoA_v14_p47.pdf |date=2018-10-01 }}
• Valerio, CE. (1986): Mygalomorph spiders in the Barychelidae (Araneae) from Costa Rica. J. Arachnol. 14: 93–99. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v14_n1/JoA_v14_p93.pdf PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170312/http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v14_n1/JoA_v14_p93.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }} (Psalistops venadensis, Trichopelma laselva)
• Schwendinger, P.J. (2003): Two new species of the arboreal trapdoor spider genus Sason (Araneae, Barychelidae) from Southeast Asia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51(2): 197–207. [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/51/51rbz197-207.pdf PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927002645/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/51/51rbz197-207.pdf |date=2011-09-27 }} (S. sundaicum, S. andamanicum)

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• [http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Find+out+about/Animals+of+Queensland/Spiders/Primitive+Spiders+Infraorder+Mygalomorphae/Brush-Footed+Trapdoor+Spiders#.VphS4zZR36s Brush-footed trap-door spiders]

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