New ‘jellybean’ spider species found on Queensland’s Darling Downs

Scientists from the Queensland Museum have discovered two new species of goblin spiders on the state’s Darling Downs.

Dr Barbara Baher says her team discovered the jellybean goblin spider in Dalby.

They also discovered the Leichhardt reddish brown swift spider while exploring a rainforest in the Bunya Mountains last year.

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>It says the species name, Leichhardt reddish-brown swift spider, was chosen to honour former Greens senator Bob Brown, who rescued rainforest environments.

And also because it’s reddish brown in colour, surely.

Bubblecar said:

>It says the species name, Leichhardt reddish-brown swift spider, was chosen to honour former Greens senator Bob Brown, who rescued rainforest environments.

And also because it’s reddish brown in colour, surely.

They are always looking for names to use.

In my town the older families are wondering why the current street name lists seem to have obscured those who went off to fight a war against the Axis of evil and are now naming all the streets after the members of La Famiglia.

CrazyNeutrino said:

New ‘jellybean’ spider species found on Queensland’s Darling Downs

Scientists from the Queensland Museum have discovered two new species of goblin spiders on the state’s Darling Downs.

Dr Barbara Baher says her team discovered the jellybean goblin spider in Dalby.

They also discovered the Leichhardt reddish brown swift spider while exploring a rainforest in the Bunya Mountains last year.

more…

“Dr Baher says the jellybean goblin spider is only one millimetre long and has an armour-like shell.

“That helps them to protect themselves from desiccation because they’re very small, so they’re very sensitive about humidity, so they have developed this little shell,” she said.”

You would need very good eyesight to find these little chaps.