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Calculus bicolor

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Arachnida

Infraorder
  
Araneomorphae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Subphylum
  
Chelicerata

Order
  
Araneae

Family
  
Orsolobidae

Rank
  
Species

Calculus bicolor, the sole species of the genus Calculus, is a South African spider in the family Orsolobidae. 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. Calculus bicolor was described by 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 those of oonopids.

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