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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.
→ 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.
Caponiidae is a family of ecribellate haplogyne spiders that are unusual in a number of ways. They differ from other spiders in lacking book lungs and having the posterior median spinnerets anteriorly displaced to form a transverse row with the anterior lateral spinnerets.
8 genera, 73 species Symphytognathidae is a family of spiders with 90 [ 1 ] described species in eight genera. They occur in the tropics of Central and South America and the Australian region (with Oceania ).
The fourth leg is the longest, measuring 70 mm (2.8 in) in the type male and 66 mm (2.6 in) in a female. The legs and palps are bluish black with three distinctly colored rings: dark reddish orange on the part of the patellae closest to the body with light yellowish pink further away, pale yellowish pink on the lower part of the tibiae, and ...