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    Scientists have discovered a new species of spider in Yunnan

    • Last Update: 2021-03-15
    • Source: Internet
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    from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden learned that China's spider taxonomists found a new species of spider - pilot crab spiders. The results were published recently in the biology 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, which was later discovered by morphological comparison and molecular evidence, and named it a 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; (Source: Xinhua News Agency, Zhang Dongqiang)
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