Here are 5 new species of Australian trapdoor spider. It took scientists a century to tell them apart
- Written by: Mark Harvey, Curator of Arachnology at the Western Australian Museum, Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia
A female _Euoplos variabilis_ from Mount TamborineJeremy WilsonAfter a century of scientific confusion, we can now officially add five new species to Australia’s long list of trapdoor spiders — secretive, burrowing relatives of tarantulas.
It all started in 1918, when a species known as Euoplos variabilis, was first described. Since...