Suborder Mygalomorphae
These are generally larger spiders, including trapdoor spiders and tarantulas. Trapdoor spiders are so called because they build burrows with a trapdoor. They are relatively large and robust spider, hence sometimes mistaken as tarantulas. Tarantulas are the largest spiders in the world. They are hairy and some are so large that they can attack small birds or rodents.
Woodlands ©Tan KH
Purse-web Spiders (Family Atypidae)
Calommata sundaicaCurtain-web Spiders (Family Hexathelidae)
Macrothele maculataTube Trapdoor Spiders (Family Nemesiidae)
Damarchus workmaniBrushed Trapdoor Spiders (Family Barychelidae)
ldioctis littoralisMonodontium bukittimah
Rhianodes atratus
Sipalolasma aedificatrix
Tarantulas (Family Theraphosidae)
Coremiocnemis validaHaplopelma robustum
Lampropelma violaceopes
Singapore Tarantula Phlogiellus inermis
Selenocosmiaja vanensis
Rhianodes atratus
This species is widely distributed in Southeast Asia and seems able to exist in once-disturbed habitats (e.g. Choa Chu Kang Park). It can also be found at Bukit Timah, where care must be taken to separate it from the newly discovered Monodontium bukittimah (Raven 2008).
Bukit Batok Nature Park ©Tan KH
Singapore Tarantula (Phlogiellus inermis)
This is not a large tarantula.
Bukit Batok Nature Park ©Tan KH
There's an error for phlogiellus inermis. Males are not necessarily black, while females can be black too. The pictures are also erroneous: the "male" depicted is definitely no inermis, instead it is likelier to be a trapdoor spider. The "female" meanwhile judging from the pedipalp shape in the picture is likelier to be a male inermis.
ReplyDeleteThanks, corrected.
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