A Remarkable Discovery: Exploring a Rare Eresus and Spider Wasp Interaction

  Photo Credit: © Antonino Rametta . All photographs are used with permission. No part of these images may be reproduced, distributed, or used in any form without the prior written permission of the photographer. A Remarkable Discovery: Exploring a Rare Eresus and Spider Wasp Interaction One of the most rewarding aspects of maintaining Arácnido Taxonomy is hearing from naturalists and photographers around the world who take the time to share their discoveries. Every so often, an email arrives that immediately captures your attention. Not because it claims to rewrite what we know about biodiversity, but because it documents something that very few people have the opportunity to witness. Recently, I was contacted by a naturalist in Sicily who shared a series of exceptionally high-quality photographs of a female ladybird spider ( Eresus ) during what appeared to be an interaction with a spider wasp. Along with the images came a simple question: "Could this be scientifically import...

A new species of the lyrate curtain-web spider genus Trechona C. L. Koch, 1850 from South Brazil and the hitherto unknown female of T. excursora (Araneae: Dipluridae)

 


A new species of the lyrate curtain-web spider genus Trechona C. L. Koch, 1850 from South Brazil and the hitherto unknown female of T. excursora (Araneae: Dipluridae)

Abstract

A new species of the lyrate curtain-web spider genus Trechona C. L. Koch, 1850, Trechona minuana sp. nov., is described, based on males and females from Santa Catarina state, South Brazil. It is the first species of the genus from this Brazilian region. Additionally, we describe for the first time the female of Trechona excursora Pedroso, Miranda & Baptista, 2019 based on specimens from its type localities.

Gabriel Wermelinger-Moreira, Denis Rafael Pedroso, Pedro de Souza Castanheira, Renner Luiz Cerqueira Baptista "A new species of the lyrate curtain-web spider genus Trechona C. L. Koch, 1850 from South Brazil and the hitherto unknown female of T. excursora (Araneae: Dipluridae)," Arachnology, 19(9), 1177-1184, (13 November 2024) https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1177