Peacock Spider With Butt That Looks Like Vincent Van Gogh S The Starry Night Discovered
The brightly-colored arachnid is one of seven new species of peacock spider recently described in a paper published in Zootaxa by Joseph Schubert, Legacy Registration Officer in Entomology and Arachnology at Museums Victoria, in Australia. In the paper, Schubert says the name M. constellatus was chosen because of the spider’s unusual patterning on its abdomen, resembling a starry sky. Constellatus comes from the Latin word for “starry” or “studded with stars....