Eucyrtops latior

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.

Distribution and habitat

The 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.

Behaviour

The spiders are fossorial, terrestrial predators which construct burrows with thin trapdoors.