Palfuria caputlari
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Palfuria caputlari is a spider
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...

 species of the Zodariidae family.

Etymology

The epitheton is composed of two Latin
Latin
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 nouns: caput = "head" and lari from larus = "gull
Gull
Gulls are birds in the family Laridae. They are most closely related to the terns and only distantly related to auks, skimmers, and more distantly to the waders...

". It refers to the shape of the median apophysis
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as seen from the side.
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