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  1. 🕷️My beloved young friend FLUFF/Y ❤️

    Almost a hundred million years of Theraphosidae, so I, homo sapiens sapiens, pale in comparison to you.

    🇧🇷 Brazilian whiteknee tarantula (Acanthoscurria geniculata).

    #tarantula #spider #acanthoscurriageniculata #mygalomorphae #theraphosidae #whitekneetarantula

  2. Meet _Chilobrachys natanicharum_, a newly described tarantula from Thailand with legs that iridesce with "a blue-violet hue resembling the color of electrical sparks". You seriously gotta see this. zookeys.pensoft.net/article/10 :OpenAccess:

    An article about some previously described metallic blue tarantulas from southeast Asia, including another Chilobrachys: smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

    #spiders #tarantulas #Araneae #Theraphosidae #Thailand #taxonomy #arachnews #OpenAccess

  3. Meet _Chilobrachys natanicharum_, a newly described tarantula from Thailand with legs that iridesce with "a blue-violet hue resembling the color of electrical sparks". You seriously gotta see this. zookeys.pensoft.net/article/10 :OpenAccess:

    An article about some previously described metallic blue tarantulas from southeast Asia, including another Chilobrachys: smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

    #spiders #tarantulas #Araneae #Theraphosidae #Thailand #taxonomy #arachnews #OpenAccess

  4. Some tidbits of #OpenAccess #Arachnews:

    - a new high-level #phylogeny of #Solifugae, the bizarre and enigmatic arachnids known as "camel spiders", "wind scorpions", "sun spiders", and so on. From Siddharth Kulkarni at UW-Madison's Sharma lab and featuring all the usual suspects in the authors list, like solifuge expert Paula Cushing, Efrat Gavish-Regev, Danilo Harms, etc. :OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.10

    - #tarantulas (family #Theraphosidae) in the wild in Argentina! Including many Plesiopelma aspidosperma and "the first published color photograph of an adult specimen of Cyriocosmus versicolor based on a reliable taxonomic identification". 🔓 researchgate.net/publication/3

    #arachnids #spiders #Araneae

  5. Some tidbits of #OpenAccess #Arachnews:

    - a new high-level #phylogeny of #Solifugae, the bizarre and enigmatic arachnids known as "camel spiders", "wind scorpions", "sun spiders", and so on. From Siddharth Kulkarni at UW-Madison's Sharma lab and featuring all the usual suspects in the authors list, like solifuge expert Paula Cushing, Efrat Gavish-Regev, Danilo Harms, etc. :OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.10

    - #tarantulas (family #Theraphosidae) in the wild in Argentina! Including many Plesiopelma aspidosperma and "the first published color photograph of an adult specimen of Cyriocosmus versicolor based on a reliable taxonomic identification". 🔓 researchgate.net/publication/3

    #arachnids #spiders #Araneae