#theraphosidae — Public Fediverse posts
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🕷️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
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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. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/106278/ :OpenAccess:
An article about some previously described metallic blue tarantulas from southeast Asia, including another Chilobrachys: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/turquoise-tinted-tarantula-discovered-sri-lanka-180972990/
#spiders #tarantulas #Araneae #Theraphosidae #Thailand #taxonomy #arachnews #OpenAccess
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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. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/106278/ :OpenAccess:
An article about some previously described metallic blue tarantulas from southeast Asia, including another Chilobrachys: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/turquoise-tinted-tarantula-discovered-sri-lanka-180972990/
#spiders #tarantulas #Araneae #Theraphosidae #Thailand #taxonomy #arachnews #OpenAccess
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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: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107684
- #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". 🔓 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373649580
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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: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107684
- #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". 🔓 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373649580