1A spider which lives in a burrow with a hinged cover like a trapdoor.
活板门蛛
Family Ctenizidae, suborder Mygalomorphae
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Meet the trapdoor spiders, famed for their silk-lined burrows complete with emergency exits, hinged trapdoors and careful camouflage.
Some are grabbed by trapdoor spiders, others cocooned by web weavers and still more tackled from distance by the film's real star, the jumping spiders.
Most trapdoor spiders but not all are misleadingly named, as not all species make a door for their burrows.
I guess you could say spiders, and trapdoor spiders in particular, also cunningly construct hides and then lie in wait for unsuspecting insects to pass.