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Muruta

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Muruta
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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)
Species
  • Muruta bario (Huber, 2016)
  • Muruta tambunan (Huber, 2016)

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 it contains only two species, both native to northern Borneo: M. bario and M. tambunan.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.