Calculus bicolor

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Calculus six-eyed ground spider
Scientific classification Edit this 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]

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