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In the mountains of Ecuador lurked an eight-eyed creature with a “bad temperament.” When scientists encountered the hairy animal, they discovered its bristly personality — and a new species.
Phidippus audax are commonly referred to as "bold jumping spiders" or "bold jumpers". [8] The species name, audax, is a Latin adjective meaning "audacious" or "bold". [8] This name was first used to describe the species by French arachnologist Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, who described the spider as being, "very bold, often jumping on the hand which threatens it". [9]
→ 8-eyed creature — with personality like 'Satan' — discovered. → 'Ghost'-like creature with 'ample' genitalia found at power plant. → 'Cryptic' 3-foot-long creature found in mangroves ...
The spider does not rest on the center of the web, but instead builds a silk-lined sanctuary in a leaf at the margins. [1] The leaf is bent at the edges and roofed with a mesh of silk. If a prey animal becomes entangled in the web, the vibrations from its struggle travel to the center of the web, then along a single long strand of silk (the ...
Caponia, also called eight-eyed orange lungless spiders, is an Afrotropical genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1887. [2] As the common name implies, these spiders have a tightly arranged set of eight eyes, as opposed to the related two-eyed genus Diploglena , and breathe using two pairs of ...
Researchers described the animal’s hunting method as surprising and notable.
The Parilarilao trapdoor spider is considered “medium sized,” reaching about 0.5 inches in length, the study said. ... ‘Large’ 8-eyed creature with ‘wiggly’ genitalia found on trees ...
In six-eyed species, it is always the principal eyes which are absent. [2] [5] The secondary eyes normally have a light-reflecting layer, the tapetum, that makes the eyes appear pale. [6] The tapetum differs considerably between spider families but can be separated into three main types: PT (primitive type), CT (canoe type), and GT (grate type ...