Atypical tarantula

Sphodros rufipes

• Atypus
• Calommata
• Sphodros

The trestle spiders ( Atypidae ) family consists of 43 species in three genera. In Central Europe, only three species of the family, genus Atypus, native. They are also the sole representatives of the bird arachnids in Central Europe. The native species are 5 to 12 mm in size, with the orthognathic chelicerae are not measured and conspicuous by their size. The small and powerful, dark brown animals are easily detected.

Way of life

Decorating spiders lurking in Erdröhren that can up to 50 cm deep rich in tropical rain forests. This tube is papered with silk, are woven into the stones and soil particles. The tube is expanded at the end of a chamber. The "wallpaper " goes into the catch tube over which consists of the same material and is so well camouflaged placed on the floor around a few feet long, or parts of plants mounted above the ground built into the vegetation. The burrow is always larger and longer than the muzzle tube which, although difficult to see, but is a good determination characteristic of the family.

Once prey stumbles about catching hose, quick papering the spider out within the catch tube and bites through it in the booty. Then the stunned prey is drawn into the tube and Selbiger repaired before the prey is eaten in the burrow.

The tendency to form colonies females can be up to nine years old and most life living in their burrows. Roving end individuals are usually male or pups. Males leave their homes to embark on the search for females ready for mating; the pups have to open up new habitat.

Genera

The genera of wallpapering spiders are: