How is the new spider species that was discovered in Talca

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An impressive discovery occurred in Talca, Maule Region. It is a new spider species that was named Calathotarsus gigas, whose finding was recently published in the Revista Ibérica de Aracnología.The genus Calathotarsus, to which this arachnide belongs, is a small group of migalorfa spiders that is distributed in Argentina and Chile and that are relatives of the chick spiders. With this discovery, our country already has 772 species of spiders re…

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The Calathotarsus gigas, is the new species that was found a few days ago in Talca in the Maule Region. Susana Velázquez found this arachnide in a parking lot in the town of Las Rastras and published it in the group “Aranas de Chile”, where it caught the attention of the arachnologist Rubén Montenegro. “We barely received the specimen, we realized that it was a new species,” said Rubén, who was in charge of the study, and explained that “it diff…

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With this discovery, Chile has 772 species according to the world catalogue of spiders.

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An important discovery was made in the city of Talca, capital of the Maule Region. It is a new species of spider that is able to hide in burrows and create a cover of its own. Thus reported the media Laderasur, who realizes that this new species detected in the Maulina area was baptized as Calathotarsus gigas, whose finding was reported in the Revista Ibérica de Arachnología. Its name refers to the size of the species compared to that of its con…

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A team of scientists has identified a new spider species in the Maule Region, a finding that expands knowledge about Chilean biodiversity. It is Calathotarsus gigas, the most southern record of the genus Calathotarsus in the country, which until now was only known in the regions of Valparaíso and Metropolitana. [...]