Migidae

{{short description|Family of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Tree trapdoor spiders

| image = Paramigas subrufus 1895.jpg

| image_caption = Paramigas perroti

| taxon = Migidae

| authority = Simon, 1889

| range_map = Distribution.migidae.1.png

| range_map_upright = 1.15

| diversity = 11 genera, 103 species

}}

Migidae, also known as tree trapdoor spiders, is a family of spiders with about 100 species in eleven genera. They are small to large spiders with little to no hair and build burrows with a trapdoor.{{cite journal| last=Griswold| first=C. E.| year=1998| title=The nest and male of the trap-door spider Poecilomigas basilleupi Benoit, 1962 (Araneae, Migidae)| journal=Journal of Arachnology| volume=26| pages=142–148| url=http://americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v26_n2/JoA_v26_p142.pdf}} Some species live in tree fern stems. They have a Gondwanan distribution, found almost exclusively on the Southern Hemisphere, occurring in South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia.{{cite journal| last=Raven| first=R.J.| year=1984| title=Systematics and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Migidae (Araneae) in Australia| journal=Aust. J. Zool.| volume=32| issue=3| pages=379–390| doi=10.1071/ZO9840379| url=http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/ZO9840379.htm| url-access=subscription}}