Muruta
| Muruta | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pholcidae |
| Genus: | Muruta Huber, 2018[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pholcus tambunan (Huber, 2016)
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| Species | |
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Muruta is a small genus of southeast Asian cellar spiders named after the Murut people.[2] It was erected in 2018 for two species transferred from Pholcus after a molecular phylogenetic study of Pholcidae.[1] They are average size for cellar spiders with relatively long legs, the first legs averaging 35 to 40 millimetres (1.4 to 1.6 in) long.[2] Males can be distinguished from other species by hairless, flat sclerites on their chelicerae, and females can be distinguished by three-layered telescopic tubes in their genital structure.[3][2] As of April 2022[update] it contains only two species, both native to northern Borneo: M. bario and M. tambunan.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Gen. Muruta Huber, 2018". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ a b c Huber, B. A.; Eberle, J.; Dimitrov, D. (2018). "The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae)". ZooKeys (789): 51–101. doi:10.3897/zookeys.789.22781. PMC 6193417. PMID 30344435.
- ^ Huber, B. A.; Koh, J. K. H.; Ghazali, A. R. M.; et al. (2016). "New leaf- and litter-dwelling species of the genus Pholcus from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Pholcidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (200): 1–45. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.200. S2CID 89201056.
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