Scientists have discovered a new species of spider in Yunnan

, June 15 (Xinhua Zhang Dongqiang) Reporters from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden learned that China's spider taxonomists found a new species of spider - the pilot crab spider. The results were published recently in the biological journal ZooKeys.
According to the author of the paper, Forestry Jie, an assistant researcher at the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he collected the spider specimen in 2017, but misj identified it as an octa-plate crab spider, and then found it to be a new species through morphological contrast and molecular evidence, and named it the pilot crab spider.
said the new species of pilot crab spiders was collected at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This is a very beautiful spider, female spider has two nail caps so large, about 13 mm long, colorful, with spots on the back;