Hidden Treasures of Watuputih
September 8, 2015
SIGIT Wiantoro was amazed at spiders he was watching traipsing across the ground back in July 2014, at the Joglo Cave in the Groundwater Basin (CAT) area of Watuputih. His gut told him this was a new species. The biology researcher from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) brought specimens to Jakarta. Working with mammalian expert Cahyo Rahmadi, analysis verified arachnid was indeed a new species of Stygophrynus, or whip spider. "Only two
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