Tuesday, July 7, 2020

A new stalk-eyed fly: Teleopsis sorora

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Stalk-eyed flies have eyestalks on which their eyes are mounted. These projections stick out from the sides of the head. Both males and fema...
Monday, July 6, 2020

A new fish: Lucifuga gibarensis

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Lucifuga is a genus of cusk-eels that give birth to young that developed within their mothers body.  Most of the species are native to cave...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Two new carpenter bees: Xylocopa auriventris and Xylocopa romeroi

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Carpenter bees got their name from their nesting behavior. Most of them burrow into hard plant material such as dead wood or bamboo and lay ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

A (not so) new fish: Microcanthus joyceae

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You might have seen this group of fishes in pictures and videos from coral reefs and sometimes in a reef aquarium although this would be a r...
Monday, June 22, 2020

A new toad: Megophrys chishuiensis

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A couple of months ago I posted about Litter frogs (Family Megophryidae) which live in South East Asia. They are mostly famous for their cam...
Monday, June 15, 2020

A new grass fern: Actinostachys minuta

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The grass ferns (Schizaeaceae) are a family of ferns mainly found in the tropics. Most of them are rather small plants and the new species i...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Two new spiders: Thelcticopis dahanensis and Thelcticopis unciformis

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Thelcticopis is a genus of huntsman spiders (family Sparassidae) that occurs almost exclusively in the Australasian region. Huntsman spider...