ID spider please.

[P. Novak]

Caught a spider that I would like to be IDed.
Location: Stevens Creek Moutains along the side of a trail in California.
Information: First set of pictures are the holes the spiders lived in. Second is the spiders themselves. There were tons of holes, but I only took two spiders. THey are about 3-4 cm DLS.

My camers sucks so sorry for the bad pics of the spiders.

 

[Arachnophilist]

folding door spiders? I think an Antrodiates pacificus or another sp. of this genus perhaps. looks like one I found here in Vancouver.

 

[lucanidae]

I agree, folding door spider aka Antrodiaetidae, but the shape of the thoraic furow indicates it is genus Aliatypus, a genus that has 11 species in your region.

 

[P. Novak]

I agree, folding door spider aka Antrodiaetidae, but the shape of the thoraic furow indicates it is genus Aliatypus, a genus that has 11 species in your region.

Thanks guys! Hey, do you have a list of all the species anywhere?

 

[Arachnophilist]

look in the nearctic spider database its all in there. just google it and it should come up.

 

[P. Novak]

Thanks.


I looked up the Genus Aliatypus and I only came up with trapdoor spiders.

 

[syndicate]

very cool spider u got there!catch me one

 

[cacoseraph]

here is the first set of Google Image Searches for the non-thereaphosidae
if the google image search link just says the genus name then there were no species level pics available
if the google image search link is an italic genus then there is no search to genus level (see second set)


FAMILY GENUS SPECIES urlGiS
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus aquilonius Aliatypus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus californicus Aliatypus californicus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus erebus Aliatypus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus gnomus Aliatypus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus gulosus Aliatypus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus janus Aliatypus janus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus plutonis Aliatypus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus thompsoni Aliatypus thompsoni
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus torridus Aliatypus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus trophonius Aliatypus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Antrodiaetus montanus Antrodiaetus montanus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Antrodiaetus pacificus Antrodiaetus pacificus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Atypoides gertschi Atypoides gertschi
ANTRODIAETIDAE Atypoides riversi Atypoides riversi


hehehe, excel

species culled from
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~stevelew/myg.html

 

[P. Novak]

here is the first set of Google Image Searches for the non-thereaphosidae
if the google image search link just says the genus name then there were no species level pics available
if the google image search link is an italic genus then there is no search to genus level (see second set)


FAMILY GENUS SPECIES urlGiS
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus aquilonius Aliatypus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus californicus Aliatypus californicus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus erebus Aliatypus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus gnomus Aliatypus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus gulosus Aliatypus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus janus Aliatypus janus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus plutonis Aliatypus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus thompsoni Aliatypus thompsoni
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus torridus Aliatypus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Aliatypus trophonius Aliatypus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Antrodiaetus montanus Antrodiaetus montanus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Antrodiaetus pacificus Antrodiaetus pacificus
ANTRODIAETIDAE Atypoides gertschi Atypoides gertschi
ANTRODIAETIDAE Atypoides riversi Atypoides riversi


hehehe, excel

species culled from
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~stevelew/myg.html

Wow awesome, thanks Cacoseraph! I really believe the spiders I caught are.. Antrodiaetus pacificus.