Eucyrtops latior is a species of mygalomorph spider in the Idiopidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1877 by British arachnologist Octavius Pickard-Cambridge.[1][2]
| Eucyrtops latior | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Idiopidae |
| Genus: | Eucyrtops |
| Species: | E. latior
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| Binomial name | |
| Eucyrtops latior (O.Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)[1]
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Distribution and habitat
editThe species occurs in south-west Western Australia, in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions, in open forest habitats with heavily littered sandy and loamy soils.[2]
Behaviour
editThe spiders are fossorial, terrestrial predators which construct burrows with thin trapdoors.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Cambridge, O.P- (1877). "On some new genera and species of Araneidea". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (4) 19: 26–39 [29].
- ^ a b c "Species Eucyrtops latior (O.P.-Cambridge, 1877)". Australian Faunal Directory. Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia. 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-08-14.