As uniform as cloned soldiers, new spiders were named after the Stormtroopers in Star Wars
Thursday, March 14, 2019 - 10:40
in Biology & Nature
Despite being widely distributed across north and central South America, bald-legged spiders had never been confirmed in Colombia until the recent study by the team of Drs Carlos Perafan and Fernando Perez-Miles (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) and William Galvis (Universidad Nacional de Colombia). Published in the open-access journal ZooKeys, their research paper describes a total of six previously unknown species inhabiting the country.