Scientists have discovered a new species of tarantulas

They have a huge size.

One dark night in the rainforest of Guyana, herpetologist, Andrew Snyder accidentally lit flashlight “a small shiny cobalt spot” on an old stump.

First Snyder thought that the sparkle comes from the eyes of a spider, which usually Shine, if they Shine But it wasn’t. Snyder was faced with a previously unknown species of hairy tarantula with blue legs.

“I immediately realized that he is not like any that I’ve met before,” wrote Snyder, a doctor of the faculty of biology at the University of Mississippi and a photographer, the blog “global wildlife protection”.

The discovery was part of a month study in March 2014, and this was the second expedition group on biodiversity assessment, in which researchers searched for new species in the National Park Caetera in Guyana.

The expedition was successful: scientists have discovered more than 30 species that are probably unknown to science, including frogs, dragonflies and a few butterflies and beetles, according to a report published on 16 November by the environmental group Global Wildlife Conservation and the world wildlife Fund, Guianas.

Initially, Snyder was instructed to look for amphibians and reptiles, but he dubbed it tarantula, “an incredible discovery” in the blog. The spider is black, except for the large cobalt blue bands on the abdomen. Snyder said that the tarantula also has blue stripes on each of his extremities.

Still was well-known green tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens) and sapphire tarantulas (Poecilotheria metallica).

Researchers have yet to formally classify and name the spider, but a colleague of Snyder, who specializiruetsya in the Neotropical tarantulas, suggested that it belongs to the subfamily Ischnocolinae.

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