A spider named tuna Berga greta – view

The Senckenberg arachnologist Peter Jäger wanted to remind with the choice of name aware of the commitment of the Swedish environmental activist against climate change and the threat to the species diversity.

giant crab spiders do not build webs, but are active hunters known. The researchers described so far unknown genus differs from other giant crab spiders, mainly due to the unique dentition of their jaws-mouth as well as your exceptional dotted front part of his body.

hunter has described in the past 20 years, many new species of spiders. Tuna Berga greta the 400. Kind of, he discovered. A South-East Asian giant crab spider and named it after singer David Bowie Heteropoda David Bowie.

(SDA)

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