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I travelled Australia looking for peacock spiders, and collected 7 new species (and named one after the starry night sky)

  • Written by Joseph Schubert, Entomology/Arachnology Registration Officer, Museums Victoria
I travelled Australia looking for peacock spiders, and collected 7 new species (and named one after the starry night sky)Heath Warwick, Author provided

After I found my first peacock spider in the wild in 2016, I was hooked. Three years later, I was travelling across Australia on a month-long expedition to document and name new species of peacock spiders.

Peacock spiders are a unique group of tiny, colourful, dancing spiders native to Australia. They’re roughly...

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