Solifugae (often referred to as 'camel spider', though not really a spider)

Claims that they aggressively chase people are untrue since they only want to be in the people's shadow

Like a beauty queen from outer space 🖤

#spider #spiders #solifugae #animals #spinne #spinnen #tiere

#Camelspiders (#Solifugae, #Arachnida) have particularly shaped #chelicerae. In my 2010 #video (#reedited) #details of the #prey #catching #behavior and how the #chelicerae function, when crushing the prey, can be observed. Visible is the species #Galeodes #arabs.
© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2010/ 2014

Sources:
S. F. Wirth full #blog #article about camel spiders and status current #scientific knowledge and #behavioral #macro #video (2010/ 2024):

https://twitter.com/wirthstef/status/1747772726666834250?t=zSXdMciAljLfNC0_E4LZag&s=19

Some tidbits of #OpenAccess #Arachnews:

- a new high-level #phylogeny of #Solifugae, the bizarre and enigmatic arachnids known as "camel spiders", "wind scorpions", "sun spiders", and so on. From Siddharth Kulkarni at UW-Madison's Sharma lab and featuring all the usual suspects in the authors list, like solifuge expert Paula Cushing, Efrat Gavish-Regev, Danilo Harms, etc.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107684

- #tarantulas (family #Theraphosidae) in the wild in Argentina! Including many Plesiopelma aspidosperma and "the first published color photograph of an adult specimen of Cyriocosmus versicolor based on a reliable taxonomic identification". 🔓 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373649580

#arachnids #spiders #Araneae

¡Se ha colado un solífugo en casaaaaa!!!
😍😍😍😍😍😍

Por supuesto, lo he soltado en el jardín tras la foto.

#solífugo #Solifugae #Gluvia #GluviaDorsalis