New Spider Specie Discovered By Accident: Is It The Start Of World Evolution?
Scientists have found a new discovery of spider with the unique mechanism. At first sight, they thought that what they see was just dangling and partly dried leaf.
In the animal world, there are certain strategies adopted by different species to survive in both defense and offense. For the case of this newfound spider species, it seemed that it is hiding and disguise itself as a dead leaf, reported on Fox News.
Those who specialize in arachnid report the discovery as a new study and the spider is on the process for species name assignment. The first few information provided is that this spider belongs to the Poltys genus which has more or less 3000 species.
On Natural Scientist article, it says naturally, insects and animals mimic leaf and flower as if it is a masquerade of evolving gown and body figure. It also changes to different colors and shape. Arachnids seldom have this capacity. One hundred or more spider species can only mimic its surroundings.
In history, this new one is first of its kind that imitates itself like a leaf. Matjaz Kunter the lead author of the study, Head of the Evolutionary Zoology Jovan Hadzi, and the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts accidentally made this discovery.
By 2011, said on National Geographic these scientists have observed the behavior of this spiders by taking photographs and recording its every moved. Meanwhile, in Yunnan, China they found and individual female surrounded by dead leaves on a twig.
Kuntner said that the female sex indicator is the spider had a green fresh leaf color on her back with a brown abdomen. They further speculate that its way to camouflage is when it placed silk covering the green parts.
Kuntner said further that "Having first noticed their rarity in nature, we talked to curators and established their overall rarity." He said more studies is in the process determining the exact genus of this spiders that they have discovered.
