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On April 28, Lin Xuejie, a spider taxonomy researcher at the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, announced four new spider species on Weibo: Li Shizhen longtou spider Eresus lishizheni, Bang Qiao Fei cloud spotted spider Episinus bonjovi, Jiang Wen cloud spotted spider E. jiangweni and Luo Qi meiti spider Meotipa luoqiae.
Among them, Li Shizhen Longtou Spider is the first new species of Longtou Spider discovered by Chinese.
Four names, Lin Ye paid tribute to his naturalist predecessors and his favorite director and rock star. He told Red Star News that there are very few people in the country who pay attention to spiders, and he hopes that this can attract more people's attention to protect the diversity of organisms.
↑ Li Shizhen Longtou Spider (partially reddened due to alcohol) and Li Shizhen (pictured on the right from primary school textbooks)
"Very special, pure black"
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In June last year, when Lin Yejie was traveling in Kashgar, Xinjiang, he accidentally found a special kind of dragon head spider in the garden of the city, "The common dragon head spider in China generally has a red belly, but this kind of dragon head spider is pure black." ”
Further investigation found that the population density of this longhead spider is not small, it will form a web, and it prefers to dig holes in the ground, Lin Jie said: "Because I like to stay in the hole, people don't see it very often." "Forestry Jie dissected and identified the genitals of this long-headed spider, which is usually necessary to confirm the new species of spiders, and finally confirmed it as a new species, and named it "Li Shizheni".
According to Lin Jie, Li Shizhen Longtou Spider is the first new species of Longtou Spider discovered by Chinese.
The Bang Qiao Flying Cloud Spider, Jiang Wen Cloud Spider and Luo Qi Mei Ti Spider were all discovered by Forestry Jie when he was doing research in Xishuangbanna, "We knocked on the branches of the trees in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, and then used umbrellas below. Among the spiders received, these three special kinds were found. ”
↑ Jiang Wenyun Spider and Jiang Wen (Picture on the right is provided by Jiang Wen)
According to Lin Jie, the abdomen of the Buncho Flying Cloud Spider is large, orange, and looks good; the Jiang Wen Cloud Spider is yellow-black; and the Abdomen of the Luo Qi Mei Ti Spider has several obvious thorns. Also through genital dissection and identification, Forester Jie confirmed that they were all new species.
"Hopefully, this will attract more attention"
Name spiders after their favorite directors and rock bands
"As one of the rarest spiders in northern China, the dragon head spider is very lucky to find a new species." Lin Shijie introduced, "Li Shizhen, as a well-known pharmacist and naturalist in ancient China, described dozens of spider species in detail in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", so the first Chinese discovered the new species of longtou spider and the teacher and decided to name him. ”
Bon Qiao Fei and Luo Qi are Lin Jie's favorite rock bands and rock singers. Lin Jie said that he felt that the two spiders corresponding to each other were also very rocky. In addition, Jiang Wen is a well-known Chinese director and actor, named after Jiang Wen, the newly discovered spider, which is purely forestry outstanding than his love for him, "his films I must pull films, the favorite of which is his starring "Furong Town" and the director's "Sunny Days". I even went to a Moscow restaurant (a restaurant that appears in many literary works and has a special feeling) for a meal. ”
↑ Bonjo Flying Cloud Spider and BonChofell Band (Right picture from the official website of Boncho Fly band)
↑ Luo Qi Meidi Spider (Right source Luo Qi personal Weibo)
The reporter learned that naming organisms with celebrity names and related information is more common in the biological world.
For example, last year, Sun Zhixin, a master's student at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, named a unique trilobite he discovered 500 million years ago as Fantasia, taken from the album of singer Jay Chou. There are more creatures named after rock stars, such as the parasite named Bob Marley, the spider named Neil Young, and the gentian flower named Green Day.
Currently, all four of these new species have been published in the journal Zoological Systematics. Lin Linjie told Red Star News that there are very few people who pay attention to spiders in China, and he hopes that this can attract more people's attention to protect the diversity of organisms.
Red Star News reporter Wang Tuo provided a picture from the interviewee