Source: CCTV news client
Recently, the "bird catching spider" of the baboon spider family found in the Lincang Nan rolling river national nature reserve in Yunnan Province was determined to be a new species after in-depth research.
According to the male spider insert is relatively long, named: Long stick thorn spider Selenocosmia longiembola Yu, et al., 2021. The research results have been published by the research team Yang Zizhong and Yu Kun, Zhang Shuyuan, Zhang Feng and Li Zhimin in the French Journal of Insect Taxonomy on October 9, 2021
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It is reported that this "bird catching spider" was discovered by the research team of Yang Zizhong of Dali University on May 11, 2021 in Lincang Nan rolling river national nature reserve in Yunnan.
(CCTV reporter Liu Wenjie)