Hi Spider people, and soon Arachnid people!
Today we already have data on our #worldspidercatalog (version 23.0) of more than 50100 spider species!
And we continue to grow in giant steps!
Some will never finish the work set out to be done. Not because we didn't try but because the work is larger that any of us. Taxonomy is one such thing. #midjourney#taxonomy
I found Marpissa nivoyi for the first time back in April at Berrow Dunes, Somerset. All specimens were tiny juveniles. Returned to Berrow last weekend and had the privilege of finding many adults of this Nationally scarce species ๐ #TurnFear2Fascination#LoveSpiders
I know of some cases, and not only in the old world...
This is one of the great brakes (the egomania of some) that prevent the advancement of sciences and the knowledge of species, especially in those regions with an enormous biological diversity.
An impressive view of salticid predation!
By Hill et al. (2021). Extension of fangs during the predatory jumps of jumping spiders.
More at: https://t.co/rbzu1CmJ6m
#Salticidae#predation#jumpingspider#fangs@WSC_NMBE
The World Spider Catalog is a fantastic resource. It catalogues all known spider species (now>50,000) and tracks the latest changes resulting from taxonomic research. You can find it at https://t.co/b98ocsDABg
A really, really beautiful beast of its micro ecosystem!
The new Australian Maratus nubilis (Salticidae)!
I wouldn't want to be around this ๐ฆ being a micro fly ๐
PI: Should we add field assistants as co-authors?
Co-PI: mmm... They did not write anything... You know that writing is the hardest part!
PI: OK!
Field assistants ๐๐ฟ
New comprehensive phylogenetic molecular analysis of the scorpion family Bhutidae (the most diverse and rich group of scorpions)!
The authors found support for the monophyly of the Tityus group!
More at: https://t.co/Q4ye71TD1Z
Rheims & Jรคger (2022) revalidated the huntsman spider genus Sadala, describing three new species on it, and described the new Neotropical genus Meri, along with 20 new species! Also made some new taxonomic changes on these genera and Olios!
More at: https://t.co/rbzu1CmJ6m
Spider taxonomy publications for this week's #TidyTuesday with data from @WSC_NMBE. Not very easy to read but it looks nice
code and big image: https://t.co/4QooDHcCYC
#Rstats#dataviz
Hi people, here again!
With great news: 2020 was apparently a better year for spider taxonomy.
With data for 2020, there were described about 977 species of spiders in the world, and the trend, fortunately, is upwards!
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