@plazi_species - How should users report processing errors - in this study the species is given authorship of 1914, yet it was described in 2008 by two authors who are both very much alive! treatment.plazi.org/id/03A99C64EE5…
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Stuart Longhorn
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Stuart Longhorn
@StuartLonghorn
Scientific researcher, focused on various aspects of biodiversity for Neotropical insects and arachnids.
Katılım Mart 2014
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Researchers worldwide alert to #illegalwildlifetrade or unsustainable #wildlifetrade perils and challenges, and provide possible solutions to increase #sustainability of #trade @ELSenviron
Warning: tinyurl.com/394xes9f
Perspectives: tinyurl.com/7awd3sem
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@ThomasShahan Great shots yet again. You’ll get yourself in trouble with some Araneidae focus arachnologists by including the Photo of a Trichonephila under this family.
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Some more araneid diversity from Oklahoma: a pointy Acanthepeira, a cute Mastophora phrynosoma bolas spider, a contrasty Micrathena gracilis, and a handsomely patterned Verrucosa arenata
.@ThomasShahan
Araneidae is a super diverse family of spiders - here are just a few fancy orbweavers to sate your unquenchable spider thirst. Trichonephila senegalensis (Mozambique), Gasteracantha falcicornis (MZ), Isoxya tabulata (MZ), Micrathena sagittata (Belize)
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@FabioAleRomero @ArminReindl It was Erginulus subserialis, a species widespread on pacific lowlands of Central America from Chiapas Mexico to Guanacaste Costa Rica. You had the right family. Most species are really poorly known, and many undescribed ones, but this one is especially widespread.
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@ArminReindl Haven't found something specific but the closest I got is the genus Cynortula.
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@Arachno_Cosas @andrade_5540 Es Cupiennius salei, sin dudas. Saludos
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¡Hola, @andrade_5540! Gracias por compartir. Se trata de una araña del género #Cupiennius probablemente. Posee veneno (como la mayoría de las arañas), pero no son consideradas de importancia médica #NIM✅
Christopher Andrade@andrade_5540
Saludos @Arachno_Cosas desde #Cosautlan #Veracruz me encontré esta amiga 🕷 🕷🕷 @Gretellcj @Emm_Andrade @monicamlasso
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@ThomasShahan Awesome observation. For the record, the spider was Olios simoni, currently known from just one female specimen from Guatemala in the 1880s. I’ve seen a fair few photos from Belize, so not rare, but the male is undescribed and ecology etc is completely unknown.
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A large orange sparassid (Olios sp?) with a swollen abdomen was brought to me during a workshop in Belize - she moved slowly and awkwardly - clearly unwell. Soon she stopped altogether and her legs curled inwards. A smooth dark nematomorph burst from & spiraled out of her abdomen
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Outraged but not surprised that my employer (I'm a grad student), the American Museum of Natural History, is hosting a $30,000-a-plate Gala in honor of the fascist and genocidal Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, a man who is forcing Indigenous peoples off their land...
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@AMNH Your option is to put dignity and respect for science and biodiversity in front of money that you’d gain from an event that honours a grubby politician.
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The external, private event at which the current President of Brazil is to be honored was booked at the Museum before the honoree was secured. We are deeply concerned, and we are exploring our options.
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I think my Red-knee tarantula is trying to tell us something for Valentine's day? I expect it is love for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s ground-breaking work to help end illegal trade of North American tarantulas! bit.ly/2UUkoDv
#WeLoveTarantulas
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Each year, thousands of tarantulas are traded to meet the demand in the live pet market. As a result, many are being depleted from the wild.
Learn about the innovative work of the CEC to protect American tarantulas listed in #CITES: bit.ly/2UUkoDv
#WeLoveTarantulas
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Today is a sad day for #conservation science and for all the other fields which rely on museums, as the National Museum of Brazil in #RiodeJaneiro is destroyed by fire and with it its unique collections. Our thoughts go to our colleagues #MuseuNacional
theguardian.com/world/2018/sep…
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@NateTWN @weathernetwork But none of Guatemalan scorpions are dangerous. Please get museum to contact Ronny Trujillo (see above), so do a proper study of identity.
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@realDonaldTrump and when a dictator equates his own will is that of the country - HUGE trouble!
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@Bombus_lucorum Not in this case, these have a dome like proturberance in the middle of its head, and people only guess at function.
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#bestcarcass. Syntype specimen of Costa Rican horned tarantula Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Karsch, 1879. Doesn't look a day over 135 years old!
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@realDonaldTrump Terrible response. At an appropriate time (end of THEIR show), they courteously shared their voices a moment longer. Listen
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