| Muruta | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pholcidae |
| Genus: | Muruta Huber, 20181 |
| Type species | |
| Pholcus tambunan (Huber, 2016)
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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.32 As of April 2022 it contains only two species, both native to northern Borneo: M. bario and M. tambunan.1
References
References
- "Gen. Muruta Huber, 2018". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- 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)" (PDF). European Journal of Taxonomy (200): 1–45. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.200. S2CID 89201056.