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Ummidia aedificatoria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Halonoproctidae
Genus:	Ummidia
Species:	U. aedificatoria
Binomial name
Ummidia aedificatoria (Westwood, 1840)
Synonyms
Actinopus aedificatorius Cteniza aedificatoria Pachylomerus aedificatorius Pachylomerus occidentalis Sphodros aedificatorius

Ummidia aedificatoria is a species of trap-door spider found in Portugal, Spain and Morocco. It builds a shallow silk-lined trapdoor burrow, similar to those of U. algeriana and U. picea. Only three female specimens have been positively identified, all ranging from 18 to 29 millimeters in length.

References

1. "Ummidia aedificatoria". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
2. 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.
3. 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

"Ummidia aedificatoria". The Encyclopedia of Life.

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