found fem Trad Door

[Galapoheros]

found fem Trap Door

It rained here in the Austin tx area last night. I got up and saw this on my kitchen floor. I've lived and bugged around here for 20 years and I've never seen one here before. I see a species in W tx pretty often and I found one in E Tx when I was a kid. But never one here....and it walks in my house. Weird. It's a species of Trap Door. Can anyone ID it? I also saw a big Scolopendra heros castaneiceps centipede run across my rug when I was watching TV when the AB was down. I thought..."Oh, man, which one got out." But none had gotten out. It was a stranger pede! My pede cup floweth over. I'm mailing babies....just too many. It's been a weird bug month. Well maybe that's turning out to be the norm.
Sorry, can't seem to edit that thread title.

 

[P. Novak]

wow your lucky!! congrats! sorry I dont know the ID.

 

[Galapoheros]

wow your lucky!! congrats! sorry I dont know the ID.

Haha, well kind of. Also in the last few days, I had a kidney stone and 3 baby Desert Kingsnakes got out. I was happy to see the kidney stone get out .

 

[psionix]

do you still have this lil fella?

looks like something in Ctenizidae, if that's the case then it would have to be some Ummidia sp. since you are in TX.

 

[David_F]

Ummidia have a saddle-shaped tibia III but this one has a "regular" tibia so I think it's not Ummidia. The shape of tibia III, shape of the carapace, and the elongated abdomen make me think it's something from the Antrodiaetidae (Folding-door spiders).

Very cool spider!

 

[psionix]

Ummidia have a saddle-shaped tibia III but this one has a "regular" tibia so I think it's not Ummidia. The shape of tibia III, shape of the carapace, and the elongated abdomen make me think it's something from the Antrodiaetidae (Folding-door spiders).

Very cool spider!

see i knew that, but couldn't think of what else it could be. :?

Tx doesn't have any Antrodiaetidae so i ruled that out based on locale. now i'm really stumped!

 

[Scolopendra55]

Great find!!

 

[David_F]

see i knew that, but couldn't think of what else it could be. :?

Tx doesn't have any Antrodiaetidae so i ruled that out based on locale. now i'm really stumped!

Doh! I knew I forgot to do something when I got home from work yesterday morning. I have a field guide for Texas spiders and thought I remembered reading something about Antrodiaetidae being present there. Need to check to be sure. Could just be remembering things wrong.

Any other ideas though? I'm pretty sure it's not an atypid or ctenizid. Maybe Cyrtaucheniidae?