Calculus six-eyed ground spider | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Orsolobidae |
Genus: | Calculus Purcell, 1910 [1] |
Species: | C. bicolor |
Binomial name | |
Calculus bicolor Purcell, 1910 [1] |
Calculus bicolor, the sole species of the genus Calculus, is a South African spider in the family Orsolobidae. [1]
Individuals are 4 mm in length, although only juveniles have been described. The abdomen is pale yellow with a broad brown patch and black markings on the sides of the spinnerets. [2] Calculus bicolor was described in 1910 by William F. Purcell, and long assigned to the Oonopidae (goblin spiders), until a 2012 study assigned Calculus to the family Orsolobidae on the basis of sensory organs that differed from those of oonopids. [3]