Discovered nine new colorful fur spiders in Brazil

According to Livescience on October 31, a scientist has discovered nine new hairy spiders with vivid colors and living on trees in Brazil, of which four species belong to a mysterious ancient spider species once thought to have been extinction.

These findings show that we still have little understanding of the fauna in the rainforest on the Atlantic coast of Brazil, a habitat that is seriously threatened by human encroachment.

Dr. Rogério Bertani, a feather spider expert at the Butantan Institute in Sao Paulo, Brazil, who carried out the study, said: "We now have 16 species instead of the 7 previously known species in the region. this " .

One of the newly discovered spiders

Tree-dwelling hairy spiders appear in some tropical regions in Asia, Africa, South and Central America and the Caribbean (in which Amazon is the main habitat of these species). They are usually light, thin and longer than other hairy spiders to help them better adapt to their habitats.

Large sections at the top of each leg make it easy to move on different surfaces such as twigs and leaves, while the light body makes them more agile.

The research of Dr. Bertani is published in Zookeys magazine, in which he claims these are the smallest plant spiders in the world and the process of studying them shows that this spider is very ancient, so they can are considered to be the surviving ancient creatures of a larger taxon than before.

The researcher stressed that all of these newly discovered species mainly live in areas where they are found and threatened by human activities.