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Prethopalpus attenboroughi, or Attenborough's goblin spider, is a tiny spider named after Sir David Attenborough, that is found only on Horn Island off northern Queensland in Australia. The millimeter-long spider was described in 2012 by Dr Barbara Baehr of the Queensland Museum and Professor Mark Harvey of the Western Australian Museum. [1]
Oonopidae, also known as goblin spiders, is a family of spiders consisting of over 1,600 described species in about 113 genera worldwide, [1] with total species diversity estimated at 2000 to 2500 species. [2] The type genus of the family is Oonops Keyserling, 1835. Goblin spiders are generally tiny, measuring about 1 to 3 millimeters.
Prethopalpus is a spider genus known as goblin spiders and are found in the Australasian tropics, including Nepal, India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia.Three species are widely distributed, whereas the majority of species are recorded a single localities.
"This specific name is a noun in apposition named after 'Bom' a magnificent goblin in the story of 'The Goblins Looking-Glass' by Enid Blyton (1947)." [132] Pelicinus tumpy Ranasinghe & Benjamin, 2018: Goblin spider: Tumpy, "The Goblins Looking-Glass"
Individuals are relatively large for goblin spiders, measuring up to 3.0 mm (0.12 in) in body length. The genus name refers to a characteristic pointed projection between the eyes and jaws of males. In at least one species, broken-off tips of the male pedipalps have been found within the genitalia of females, postulated as a means of sperm ...
Predatoroonops is a genus of goblin spiders endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. The genus is characterized by the extremely modified male chelicerae and long pairs of ventral spines. It is the first fully revised endemic Brazilian genus of spiders, uncovered in 2012 after two and a half years of research at São Paulo's Instituto Butantan.
Noideattella tsiba is a species of araneomorph spider in the family Oonopidae, (also called "goblin spiders"). This species can only be found on the African island Madagascar. [1] Two individual specimens were collected when the species was first discovered. [1] The first was a male holotype which measured 1.4 mm across. [1]
The Russian swamp-goblin Kikimora after whom is named the spider Kikimora palustris.Art work by symbolist painter Vasiliy Ivanovich Denisov (1862-1922).. When Eskov discovered this genus of sheetweaver spiders he used for it the name of the Russian bogeywoman (and personification of nightmare and sleep paralysis) Kikimora - specifically the type of Kikimora imagined to inhabit swamps (in ...