Ummidia aedificatoria
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Halonoproctidae |
| Genus: | Ummidia |
| Species: | U. aedificatoria
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| Binomial name | |
| Ummidia aedificatoria (Westwood, 1840)
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Ummidia aedificatoria is a species of trap-door spider found in Portugal, Spain and Morocco.[1] It builds a shallow silk-lined trapdoor burrow, similar to those of U. algeriana and U. picea.[2] Only three female specimens have been positively identified, all ranging from 18 to 29 millimeters in length.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ummidia aedificatoria". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
- ^ Westwood, J. O. (1840). "Observations on the species of spiders which inhabit cylindrical tubes covered by a moveable trap-door". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 3: 170–182.
- ^ Decae, A. E. (2010). "The genus Ummidia Thorell 1875 in the western Mediterranean, a review (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 38: 328–340.
External links
[edit]"Ummidia aedificatoria" at the Encyclopedia of Life
