MIGIDAE - TRAPDOOR SPIDER

FACT FILE - 039

Family

Migidae

Species

Migas plomleyi
Raven & Churchill, 1989

Body Length

Female: 6.4mm

Habitat

Moss covered boulders in Launceston's Cataract Gorge.

Toxicity

Too small to be of any danger to humans.

plomleyi

From an old photograph
The conservation status of this species is Endangered under the Tasmanian criteria and Critically Endangered under the IUCN 1994 criteria at the Commonwealth level. (http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/zoology/invertebrata/printarchive/printtext/inv21aitems.html)