Yang’s Armoured Trapdoor Spider

True Spiders / Huntsmans

MOQ 20 head

Partners Only

4 – 6 cm legspan

Mild venom — primitive mygalomorph; bite gives local pain only and is not medically significant. Bites are very rare.

Lowland and hill forest straddling the Thai–Malaysian border; recorded in southern Thailand (Songkhla, Narathiwat) and Perlis, Malaysia. Lives in a silk-lined trapdoor burrow on forest banks. 0 – 600 m.

Ground insects ambushed at the burrow mouth via radiating silk trip-lines. Nocturnal sit-and-wait predator.

25 – 29 °C ambient — 23 °C cool end

78 – 88 %. Keep substrate damp; humid southern-forest species with moderate airflow.

None required (nocturnal, fossorial).

Crickets and roach nymphs near the door. Every 7 – 10 days.

Fossorial: 12 – 18 cm of firm packed moist substrate for a lined burrow with trip-lines. Min 20 × 20 cm, undisturbed.

Shy and reclusive; seals itself in the burrow. Not a handling species.