Two new species of jumping spiders — Langelurillus onyx and Langelurillus lacteus — have been found at Aarey Milk Colony, Mumbai’s green lungs. The second species has been reported only in Mumbai.
The discoveries reinforce how vibrant Aarey’s ecosystem is and strengthens the call to protect the area, which has 3,160 acres of grasslands, cattle sheds, tribal villages (which predate the milk production centre) and slums.
The discovery, which was made in October and November 2016 by a four-member research team, was announced on Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa. It is also significant in terms of biogeography as a first for any African genus spider species found in Asia. The presence of these species also .
HT had in May reported that a jumping spider species — Piranthus decorus — had been rediscovered at Aarey after 122 years, first spotted in Tharrawaddy, Burma (then part of British India), now Myanmar.=read more
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