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Furculattus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Furculattus Balogh, 1980
Species:	F. maxillosus
Binomial name
Furculattus maxillosus Balogh, 1980
Synonyms
Diolenius minotaurus Wanless & Lubin, 1986

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.

Description

Both 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

F. maxillosus seems to be related to the genera Chalcolecta, Diolenius, Lystrocteisa, Sobasina, Tarodes, Udvardya and several others.

Name

The genus name is a contraction of furcula and the ending -attus, a common ending for salticid genera.

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

Further reading

• 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)

External links

• Photographs of F. maxillosus