Post by surroundx on Jun 1, 2017 5:16:18 GMT
Last Seen In Myanmar 122 Years Ago, A Jumping Spider Has Been Rediscovered in Mumbai
Indian researchers have spotted a species of jumping spider known as Piranthus decorus, which was last seen in Burma 122 years ago.
The discovery was first made by Rajesh Sanap, a Mumbai-based independent researcher and photographer who photographed a male specimen of the species in 2015 in Aarey Milk Colony in the city. The female spider of the species was found in the same neighbourhood in 2016. Yet it is only now that the spider as been idenitified as the rare Piranthus decorus, which was last seen in Tharrrawaddy, Burma, in 1895.
Read more: www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/05/30/last-seen-in-myanmar-122-years-ago-a-jumping-spider-has-been-re_a_22116565/?utm_content=buffer23ce5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Indian researchers have spotted a species of jumping spider known as Piranthus decorus, which was last seen in Burma 122 years ago.
The discovery was first made by Rajesh Sanap, a Mumbai-based independent researcher and photographer who photographed a male specimen of the species in 2015 in Aarey Milk Colony in the city. The female spider of the species was found in the same neighbourhood in 2016. Yet it is only now that the spider as been idenitified as the rare Piranthus decorus, which was last seen in Tharrrawaddy, Burma, in 1895.
Read more: www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/05/30/last-seen-in-myanmar-122-years-ago-a-jumping-spider-has-been-re_a_22116565/?utm_content=buffer23ce5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
