Furculattus is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Its only species is Furculattus maxillosus. It occurs on the Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain, New Guinea, where it was found in the canopy of rain forests.[1]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Furculattus Balogh, 1980 |
Species: | F. maxillosus
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Binomial name | |
Furculattus maxillosus Balogh, 1980
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Synonyms | |
Diolenius minotaurus Wanless & Lubin, 1986 |
Description
editBoth sexes have unusual "horns" between their posterior eyes. Females reach a body length of almost 3 mm, while males are slightly larger, which is unusual for most spiders.
Relationships
editF. maxillosus seems to be related to the genera Chalcolecta, Diolenius, Lystrocteisa, Sobasina, Tarodes, Udvardya and several others.[2]
Name
editThe genus name is a contraction of furcula and the ending -attus, a common ending for salticid genera.
Footnotes
editReferences
edit- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
Further reading
edit- Balogh, Péter (1980): Studies on the Papuan Attidae (Araneae): Furculattus maxillosus gen. et sp. n. Folia ent. hung. 41: 25-27.
- Wanless, Fred R. & Lubin, Y.D. (1986): Diolenius minotaurus sp. nov., a remarkable horned jumping spider from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae). J. nat. Hist. 20: 1211-1220.
- Szűts, T. (2003): On remarkable jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Papua New Guinea. Folia entomologica hungarica 64: 41-58. PDF (description and pictures)
- Gardzińska, J. (2004): Rewizja taksonomiczna grupy Dioleniae (Araneae: Salticidae). PhD Thesis in Akademia Podlaska, Siedlce, Poland. ("A revision of the group Diolenieae (Araneae: Salticidae)"; in polish)
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