Four new wanderer species can be found skim across the scorch sand dunes of South Africa and Namibia .
The arachnids belong to the house of huntsman spiders ( Sparassidae ) , two specie of which have late becharm the public imagery : The “ Dancing White Lady ” that exploit its front legs on the sand to transmit with other wanderer , and the “ Moroccan flic - flac ” spider thatcartwheelsdown sand dunes to escape vulture .
Now , researchers from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt have identified a new genus of huntsman spider with four associated species : Three from Namibia ( May ansie , M. rudy , andM. norm)and one from South Africa ( M. Saint Bruno ) . The findings have been write inAfrican Invertebrates .
The spiders have small hair called setae near the bakshis of their spindly legs that in all likelihood forbid them from sinking into the George Sand . But what truly sets these spiders apart are the “ love bite ” on the back of female person .
" It is quite possible that these trauma were nourish during mating , " said Dr Peter Jäger , an arachnologist from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt , in astatement . “ We were ineffective to regain these mark on the males of the ' Love Bite Spider ' . "
For now , though , that remains complete surmisal , as the scientists have yet to mention the courtship in the playing field . These eight - legged beauties have parry the eye of scientists due to their nocturnal , desert - dwelling , tunnel - digging habits . To discover a tiny arachnid in the desert dune at nighttime in ego - made tunnel that camouflage the puppet ’s beige body takes a bit of travail , to say the least .
However , should such conjugation habits transpire , the species would join only six other spider specie ( out of 45,000 ) worldwide that do the same .
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Image : ( 46 ) South Africa habitat for the May Bruno spider , ( 47 ) The desert spiders ' burrow in the sand . Credit : Jon Leroy .
Image Credit : Senckenberg / Kunz
Image : The tufts of setae for the May rudy wanderer . Credit : Jäger
Image : Dark claw tufts of setae for the May bruno wanderer . Credit : Peter Jäger
