Calathotarsus simoni

Calathotarsus simoni
	Adult female with egg sac
	Adult male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Migidae
Genus:	Calathotarsus
Species:	C. simoni
Binomial name
	Calathotarsus simoni; Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1975

Last updated November 11, 2025

Calathotarsus simoni is a species of spider in the family Migidae, found in Argentina.^[1]^[2] Typical of the trapdoor families of spiders, rather than build webs, this spider creates burrows hidden by a door constructed of nearby detritus camouflaging its location.^[3]

References

1 2 "Taxon details Calathotarsus simoni Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1975", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2018-05-15
↑ Ferretti, Nelson; Copperi, Sofía; Schwerdt, Leonela; Pompozzi, Gabriel (2014-08-26). "Another migid in the wall: natural history of the endemic and rare spider Calathotarsus simoni (Mygalomorphae: Migidae) from a hill slope in central Argentina". Journal of Natural History. 48 (31–32): 1907–1921. Bibcode:2014JNatH..48.1907F. doi:10.1080/00222933.2014.886344. hdl:11336/7550. ISSN 0022-2933.
↑ Ferretti, Nelson; Pompozzi, Gabriel; Cardoso, Pedro (2017-01-01). "Species conservation profile of the rare and endemic trapdoor spider Calathotarsus simoni (Araneae, Migidae) from Central Argentina". Biodiversity Data Journal. 5 (5) e14790. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e14790 . ISSN 1314-2836. PMC 5665003 . PMID 29104433.

Ferretti, Nelson; Copperi, Sofía; Schwerdt, Leonela; Pompozzi, Gabriel (2014-03-17). "Another migid in the wall: natural history of the endemic and rare spider Calathotarsus simoni (Mygalomorphae: Migidae) from a hill slope in central Argentina". Journal of Natural History. 48 (31–32): 1907–1921. Bibcode:2014JNatH..48.1907F. doi:10.1080/00222933.2014.886344. hdl: 11336/7550 . ISSN 0022-2933. S2CID 83764534.

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[WSC_s21301-1] 1 2 "Taxon details Calathotarsus simoni Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1975", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2018-05-15

[2] Ferretti, Nelson; Copperi, Sofía; Schwerdt, Leonela; Pompozzi, Gabriel (2014-08-26). "Another migid in the wall: natural history of the endemic and rare spider Calathotarsus simoni (Mygalomorphae: Migidae) from a hill slope in central Argentina". Journal of Natural History. 48 (31–32): 1907–1921. Bibcode:2014JNatH..48.1907F. doi:10.1080/00222933.2014.886344. hdl:11336/7550. ISSN 0022-2933.

[3] Ferretti, Nelson; Pompozzi, Gabriel; Cardoso, Pedro (2017-01-01). "Species conservation profile of the rare and endemic trapdoor spider Calathotarsus simoni (Araneae, Migidae) from Central Argentina". Biodiversity Data Journal. 5 (5) e14790. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e14790 . ISSN 1314-2836. PMC 5665003 . PMID 29104433.

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